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TIMELIID^. 



Suya gi-acilis, Bomp. Consp. i. p. 281 ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. 

 Co. Mm. i. p. 327 (1854) ; Gould, B. of Asia, pt.vii. (1855). 



Burnesia m-acilis (non Rupp.), Jerdon, B. of Ind. ii. p. 185 (1863) ; 

 Hume, Nests Sf- Eyqs Ind. Birds, p. 356 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 1873, 

 p. 195 ; Adam, t. c'. p. 382 ; Butler, Str. F. 1875, p. 485 ; Hume, 

 t. c. p. 485 ; id. Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 58 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 102 ; 

 Soiff, t. c. p. 371. 



Burnesia lepida, A. Anderson, Ibis, 1872, p. 237 ; Brooks, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 476, 1880, p. 228. 



Cisticola gracilis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 709 (1875)^ 



Drymoeca gracilis, Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 206 (1876). 



Diymoipus lepidus. Brooks, Str. F. 1876, p. 274. 



Adult male. Similar to B. gracilis, but mucli paler and more 

 ashy above, with the longitudinal dark centres much paler brown ; 

 the bill smaller, and the subterminal black bars on the tail very 

 indistinct and sometimes absent altogether. Total length 5-1 

 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 1-75. tail 2-75, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 4-4 

 inches, wing 1-75, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-65. 



Young. Eather more fulvescent brown above than the adult, and 

 much yellower below. 



Hub. Erom Baluchistan to Scinde, and thence throughout the 

 valley of the Gauges. 



Baku Kelat, Persian Ba- 



loofhistan, Feb. 1872. 

 Jalk, Baloochistan, March 



17, 1872. 

 Shikarpore [Griffith). 

 Meeanee, Scinde (Dr. 



Goidd). 

 Kurachee, Scinde {Dr. 



Gould). 

 Scinde (Dr. Gould). 

 North Bengal. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.J. 



India Museum. 

 India Museum. 



India Museum, 



India Museum. 



Capt. Stackhouse Piuwiii 



[P.]. 



4. SCOTOCEECA. 



Scotocerca, Simdevall, Av. Meth. Tent. p. 7 (1872) . 

 Atraphornis, Sevei-tz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 124 (1873) 



Type. 

 S. inquieta. 

 S. inquieta. 



Tail of Scotocerca inquieta. 



Range. Desert countries of the Southern Palaearctic Eegion ; 

 Mzab country in Southern Algeria ; Arabia Petrsea and eastwards 



