210 



XIMELIIBiE. 



others killed iu the same place in December are brown above and 

 have a distinct ej'e-streak. 



Hah. The whole of India and Ce)^lon, extending into the hills of 

 Assam. 



a. Full plumage { = B. socialis, Sykes). 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. c? ad. sk. 



c. c? ad. sk. 

 d,e,f. Ad. sk. 



.7. Ad. sk. 

 h, i. Ad. sk. 



k. Ad. sk. 



«'. B. 



Cashmere. R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



Sahanmpoor, Aug. 9 {G. F. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



L. Marshall). 



Saugor, Aug. 4 ( G. F. L. M.). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]- 



Deccan (Si/kes). 



Madras (Jerdon). 

 Madras (Jerdon). 



ft'. B. brevicauda. 



Ceylon. 



;,m. c? 2 ad.sk. N.W. Ceylo 



M. Ad. sk. 



Ceylon. 



India Museum. (Types 



of P. socialis.) 

 Gould Collection. 

 Eyton Collection. 



Hugh Cuming, Esq. 

 Captain Vincent Legge, 



[P.]. 

 E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



ft. Winter plumage ( — B.stewarti). 



o. Ad. sk. Deccan (Si/kes). India Museum. 



p. c? ad. sk. Coonoor, Neilgherries, Mar. Eugene W. Gates, Esq 



^ 1, 1873 (Dr. F. Day), 

 q. Ad. sk. Sursve, Kattiawar, April 5, 



1871. 

 r, s. Juv. sk. Khandeish. 



t. Ad. sk. Cawupore. 



u, V. Ad. sk. Umritzur (Jerdon).' 



w,x. (S 5 ad.sk. Saharuupoor, Dec. 1872 (G. 



F. L. Marshall), 

 y. Ad. sk. Deyra Doon. 



2, a'. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). 



Major J. Hayes Lloyd 



[P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 A. O. Hume, Esq. 

 Gould Collection. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Gould Collection. 

 India Museum. 



8. Bumesia gracilis. 



Sylvia textrix (non V.), Audouin, Fxpl. somm. H. N. Eyypte, Ois. 



p. 277, pi. V. fig. 4 (1825). 

 Prinia gracilis, Cretzschm. in Riipp. Atlas, p. 3, tab. 2. fig. b (1826). 

 Cm'ruca gracilis, Hempr. iif Ehr. 8ymb. Fhys. 1828, Aves, fol. cc. 

 Malurus gracilis, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 466. tig. 1 (1828). 

 Sylvia gracilis, Lieht. Verz. Doubl. p. 34 (1823). 

 Diymoica gracilis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 56, no. 117 (1845) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; Bonap. Consp. i. p. 283 (1850) ; Heugl. 



Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 57 (1857) ; 



ileugl. Ibis, 1859, p. 340 ; Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 37 (1864) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 201, no. 2832 (1869). 

 Drymceca gracihs, Cab. Mies. Hein. Th. i. p. 44 (1850) ; Tristr. Ibis, 



1865, p. 82; Heuql. Ibis, 1869, p. 91 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 242 



(1869) ; Blanf. Geol. 8f Zool. Abyss, p. 373 (1870) ; Fin'sch, Trans. 



Z. S. vii. p. 321 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 31 (1871) ; Shelley, 



