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XIV. p. 594 ; Gat B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 181. 
Hodgs., Cat. B. Nepal, p. 64. Hutton^ J. A. S. 
Beng. XVII. pt. 2, p. 690. 
Salicaria arundinacea? Hodgs. Gray^s Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 82. 
Sylvia arundinacea, var. A., Lath., Hist. VII. p. 17. 
The Lesser Indian Eeed- Warbler. 
PoDENA, Hind., Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton, MS. I. p. 86. 
TicKTiCKEE of the Musselmen, Hamilton. 
TicKEA, Bengal, Hamilton. 
A. b. Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 
B. C. Bengal. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
d. e. Nepal (No. 818, 903, Hodgs. Cat.). Presented by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq., September, 1853. 
/ g. Dacca. Presented by Capt. K. C. Tytler, February, 
1854. 
" This bird is very common throughout the Peninsula, and comes 
a good deal into gardens, frequenting pea-rows and the like. In 
wilder marshy districts, such as the swampy thickets in the vicinity 
of the salt-water lake near Calcutta, not one is to be met with, 
while A. hrunnescens abound ; and A. agricola is rarely seen in the 
haunts of ^. dumetorum^'' — (Blyth.) 
" This species arrives in the hills, up to 7,000 feet at least, in 
April, when it is very common, and appears in pairs, with something 
of the manners of Phylloscopus. The note is a sharp * tcJiik-tcJiik,^ 
resembling the sound emitted by a flint and steel. It disappears by 
the end of May, in which month they breed ; but, owing to the high 
winds and strong weather experienced in that month in 1848, many 
nests were left incompleted, and the birds must have departed 
without breeding. One nest, which I took on the 6th May, was a 
round ball, with a lateral entrance ; it was placed in a thick barberry- 
bush growing at the side of a deep and sheltered ditch ; it was 
composed of coarse dry grasses externally, and lined with finer grass. 
Eggs three, and pearl-white, with minute scattered specks of rufous, 
chiefly at the larger end ; diameter x in." — (Hutton.) 
Mr. Jerdon states ; " It is certainly migratory in the south of 
India." 
