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1. Burnesia flaviventris. 



Orthotomus flaviventris, Deless. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 101 ; id. Voy. 



Inde, part ii, p. 30. 

 Piinia flaviventris, Blyth, J. A. S. Bmg. xiii. p. 376 (1844), xvi. 



p. 455 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 1(32 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 144 (1849) ; Bjj. Cuiisp. i. p. 284 (1850) ; Ilorsf. 



4- 3Ioore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 321 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. li. 



p. 169 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 23; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 196, 



no. 2702 (1869); Hume, Nests and Eggs Ltd. B. p. 334 (1875) ; 



Hume &/■ Oates, Sfr. F. 1875, p. 340 ; Bli/th <S,- Wald. B. Burm. 



p. 118 (1875) ; Godicin- Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlv. p. 202 (1876) ; 



Oates, Sir. F. 1877, p. 158 ; Wardlaiv Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 46(5 ; 



Hume ^ Damson, Sir. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 347 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 



pp. 64, 101 ; Doig, t. c. p. 378 ; Butler, t. c. p. 386. 

 Calamodvta flaviventris, Giehel, Thes. Or//, i. p. 526 (1872). 

 Prinia rafliesi, Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 311, pi. vi. fig. 1. 

 Prinia hypoxantka, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 235. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-green, becoming slightly 

 more yellow on the rump ; lesser wing-coverts and median coverts 

 like the back ; greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts and 

 quills brown, edged with olive, a little browner on the secondaries ; 

 upper tail-coverts rather lighter olive than the back ; tail-feathers 

 light brown, with olive-yellowish margins, paler and more yeUow 

 round the tips, before which is an indistinct indication of a dark 

 brown spot ; occiput, nape, and hind neck dark olive ; lores and 

 feathers round the eye dusky ash-grey ; ear-coverts dark ashy grey ; 

 cheeks, throat, fore neck, and chest yellowish white ; breast and 

 abdomen bright yellow, sides of the body and flanks a little deeper 

 coloured ; thighs olive-brown ; under tail-coverts pale yeUow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaiies pale yellow : quills light brown below, 

 inner edges whitish, rufescent on the secondaries. Total length 

 ■5-4 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 1*8, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-8.5. 



Female. Very similar in plumage to the male, but smaller. Total 

 length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1", tail 2-'6b, tarsus 0-8. 



A male killed in Singapore on the 6th of February, by Mr. Davi- 

 son, difi'ers from the bird described in having'a distinct streak above 

 the lores and the eyelid white ; the subterminal dark spots are also 

 well developed and distinct ; these last apparently form a variable 

 character, as they seem to get abraded with the age of the bird's 

 plumage. The white superciliary streak appears to be a sign of 

 winter plumage. 



Young. Wants the grey head of the adiilt, the upper surface being 

 entirely olive-yellowish, tinged with reddish on the back, and having 

 the head a little duller ; the outer aspect of the wings also a little 

 more reddish brown ; a distinct line above the eye and the eyelid 

 yellow, and the entire under surface of body, from chin to vent, 

 yellow ; tail-feathers tipped with yellow, before which are very di- 

 stinct subterminal marks of dark brown. 



The young in first ivinter plumage maj' be described as like the 

 adult bird, but having a long tail, and a tinge of reddish buff on 



