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greater and primarj'-coverts and quiUs brown, edged with the same 

 colour as the back, more ashy at the tips, and slightly rnfescent on 

 the outer greater coverts and secondaries : bastard-wing feathers 

 plainly margined with white ; npper tail-coverts and the centre tail- 

 feathers pale brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, all 

 the tail-feathers margined with pale brown, and tipped with white, 

 the centre ones slightly, but the other ones more broadly, the outer 

 feathers being also of a darker brown, incKning subterrainaUy to 

 blackish ; crown of the head light rufous, duller on the occiput and 

 nape ; lores white : eyebrow, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts 

 pale ashy grey, white on the fore part of the ear-coverts and below 

 the ej-e ; cheeks, throat, and the under surface of the body pure 

 white ; sides of the fore neck and sides of the chest slightly streaked 

 with ashy: sides of the body and flanks with a faint tinge of 

 fulvous ; thighs light tawny : under tail-coverts white : under wing- 

 coverts and axiUaries white, washed with tawny : quills below light 

 brown : inner edge of quills pale fulvescent. Total length o'l inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2'05, tail 2'3, tarsus 0'8. 



Female. Like the male in colour. Total length 4*7 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 1 -O, tail 2*2, tarsus 0-7o. 



The winter plumage is paler and more mealy than the summer 

 dress, the head only a little more rufous than the rest of the upper 

 surface : the bill is darker, the upper mandible being blackish. 



The Madras birds seem to be more rufous generally than those 

 from Jodpur, Scinde and Sambhur, their general colour being rufes- 

 cent brown, very little lighter on the head. 



Hah. Central and Southern India, extending westwards into 

 Scinde. 



a. Ad. sk. Madras. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. (Type of 



Trinia riififrons, Jerd.) 

 h. Ad. sk. Madras {Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Madi'as. Eyton Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Banks of the Ganges Gould Collection. (Type 



(Jerdo)i). of F. cleyhornice.') 



e. Ad. sk. Dehra Doon. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 /. Ad. .sk. Dehra Doon. Gould Collection. 



ff. c? ad. sk. Sambhm-, June 11, 1873. E. M. Adam, Esq. [CJ. 



h. O ad. sk. .lodpiu", Jan. 29, 1878. A. O. Hume, Esq. [C.]. 



t. Ad. sk. Scinde {Dr. H. Gould). India Museum. 



<^ 4. Cisticola incana. 



Cisticola incana, Sclatcr 8,- Hartlaid), P. Z. S. 1881. p. IHO; ffartl. 

 t. c. p. 954. 



Afhilt male. General colour above ashy brown : wing-coverts 

 like the back : bastard wing and piimary-coverts dusky bro\vn with 

 ashy edges : quills dusky brown, edged with the same colour as the 

 back, the primaries with ashy grey ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 tail-feathers brown with ashy-brown margins, all but the centre 

 tail-feathers tipped with white, before which is a subterminal 



