PALLAS^S REED-WARBLER. 
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broadly and the two latter narrowly edged with the colour of the back ; lores 
brown ; feathers round the eye pale fulvous ; ear-coverts and sides of the 
head and neck like the back ; no eye-stripe ; lower plumage huffish white,, 
lighter on the chin^ throat and abdomen and suflPused with russet-brown on 
the flanks, vent and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
buff. In summer the lower parts are not so richly coloured. 
The young have the russet-brown of the lower parts more pronounced 
than even the winter adult. 
Upper mandible dark horn-colour, lower one flesh- colour ; the tips of 
both and the gape tinged with orange ; mouth bright salmon-colour ; iris 
umber- brown ; eyelids bright plumbeous ; legs and feet plumbeous ; claws 
horn-colour. 
Length 7*7 inches, tail 3*5, wing 3*1, tarsus I'l, bill from gape '88 : the 
second primary is generally intermediate between the seventh and eighth, 
occasionally equal to or longer than the seventh ; the first primary is very 
long, measuring nearly an inch in length. The female does not appear to 
diflPer in size from the male. 
Pallas^s Reed-Warbler appears to be spread pretty well over the whole 
of Pegu. I found it abundant every winter from Kyeikpadein up to 
Myitkyo. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo, and Dr. 
Armstrong at Elephant Point. Mr. Davison found it distributed throughout 
Tenasserim over the more open parts of the country, and Capt. Bingham 
records having observed it in the Zammee river and at Kaukarit. My own 
men got numerous specimens at Malewoon. Mr. Blyth has received it 
from Arrakan. 
In winter it probably occurs in Southern China and the Indo-Burmese 
countries. At that season of the year it is diff'used over the whole peninsula 
of India and the Andaman Islands. It breeds in South-eastern Siberia and 
North China. 
This species is one of the commonest Reed- Warblers in Pegu. It does 
not afi'ect concealment so much as the others, and is consequently more 
often seen. It is also more of a water-bird, being most usually seen on 
the margins of ponds and nullahs, both in grass and bushes. It has a 
harsh croaking note. It arrives and leaves the country at much the same 
time as A. orientalise to which species it bears a close general resemblance. 
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