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rump and upper tail-coverts more uniform browu, the latter slightly 

 paler ; -wing-coverts browTi, edged with ashy brown ; primary- 

 coverts and quills dusky brown, with narrow rufous-brown edges, 

 paler and more ashj- on the primaries ; inner secondaries margined 

 with fulvous-brown ; I ail-feathers light brown, with dusky cross bars 

 under certain lights ; all but the centre feathers white at the tip, with 

 a more or less distinct sub terminal bar of blackish ; inner web also 

 more or less whitish towards the tip ; lores and a very distinct eye- 

 brow white ; cheeks and ear-coverts whitish also, with the upper 

 margin of the latter brown ; uuder surface of body pale yellowish buff, 

 whiter on the throat ; thighs tawny rufous ; sides of upper breast 

 ashy ; axillaries and under wing-coverts yellowish white, with a slight 

 tawny tinge ; quills dark brown, rufescent along the inner web : 

 " bill all black ; legs and feet pale yellowish fleshy ; iris hazel-brown " 

 (W. E. Brools). Total length 5'2 inches, culmen 0'4.5, wing 2'05, 

 tail 2-3, tarsus 0'8. 



Adult female in breeding-iilumage. Similar to the male but 

 smaller. Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 1-9, tail 2-15, 

 tarsus 0'8. 



The ivinier plumage is rather more rufescent brown above than 

 the summer dress, and rather more yellow below ; the rufous edgings 

 to the quills are also more conspicuous, and the tail is longer, 

 measuring 2*7 to 2-S inches, and there is no white on it, the feathers 

 being tipped with ashy with a black subterminal spot, more distinct 

 when viewed from below. 



The young after their first moult are much more rufous than the 

 adult bird, especially on the edges of the quills and tail-feathers ; the 

 under surface is also a much richer fulvous ; the tail-feathers are 

 tipped with fulvous and have little or no indication of the sub- 

 terminal band. 



Mr. Hume has given a very full account of the changes of plumage 

 of this species (' Stray Feathers,' 1876, p. 427) : and Mr. Brooks's 

 paper in ' Stray Feathers,' 1878, vol. ii. p. 468, should be consulted. 

 Mr. Hume seems inclined to consider the South-Indian bird distinct 

 from the North-Indian species, and he proposes to keep Hodgson's 

 name oi fusca for the latter species, which is figured in Hodgson's 

 drawings. Appendix, plate 14 (no. 388). This name would belong 

 properly to the Himalayan bird, if it were really distinct. 



The Chinese and Burmese Wren- Warblers, called Drgmceca exten- 

 sicawla by Swinhoe and D. blanfordi by Waldeu respectively, both 

 of which siipposed species are recognized by Mr. E. W. Gates as 

 occurring in Pegu, are really scarcely separable : the lores are a 

 little more fulvous than in P. inornata, and, as far as the specimens 

 have been examined, there appears to be a little less white on the 

 tail of the breeding bird in the Burmese race. The winter plumage 

 also has rather a longer tail ; but there is really nothing of any 

 consequence to separate these species from P. inornata. 



Jfah. The whole of India and. Ceylon, ranging westwards into 

 Scindc, and eastwards through Assam and the Burmese countries 



