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10. Cisticola gracilis. 



Prinia gracilis, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 119 ; Je)-d. Madr. Journ. xi. 

 p. 3 (1840) ; Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 162 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 

 As. Sue. p. 143 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 284 (1850) ; Jerd. B. Lid. 

 ii. p. 172 (1863) ; Beavcm, Ibis, 1867, p. 459 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 196, no. 2699 (1869) ; Hume, Nests 8; Eqgs Ind. B. p. 341 

 (1873); Ball, Sir. F. 1874, p. 414; Wald. 'in Blyth B. Burm. 

 p. 119 (1875) ; Hume S,- Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 136; Brooks, t. c. 

 p. 242 ; Butler, t. c. p. 480 ; Ball, Str. F. 1877, p. 217 ; Hume, t. c. 

 p. 217 ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1876, p. 280 ; Anders. Zool. Exped. Ytmnan, 

 Aves, p. 641 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 101 ; Brooks, t. c. 

 p. 476 ; Butler, Str. F. 1880, p. 406. 

 Prinia hodgsoni, Blyth, J. As. Sac. Beny. xiii. p. 376 (1844), xvi. 

 p. 456 (1847) ; Gray, Cat. Mamtn. etc. Nepal pres. Ilodys. p. 63 

 (1846) ■,id. Gen. B. i. p. 162 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 p. 143 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 284 (1850) ; Horsf. 8,- Moore, Cat. 

 B. E.L Co. Mus. i. p. 322 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 173 (1863) ; 

 Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 354; Gray, Hand-l. B.i. p. 196, no. 2698; 

 Wald. Ibis, 1871, p. 112 ; Htone, Nests ^- Eyqs Ind. B. p. 342 

 (1873) ; Adams, Str. F. 1873, p. 381 ; Hume 8,- Oates, Str. F. 1875, 

 p. 136 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 243 ; But.l. t. c. p. 480 ; Wald. in Blyth's B. 

 Burm. p. 119 (1875) ; Ball, Str. F. 1876, p. 2.34; Fuirb. t. c. p. 259 ; 

 Bourd. t. c. p. 401 ; Hume Sf Dacis. Str. F. 1878, pt. 1, p. 348 ; 

 Gates, Str. F. 1878, pt. 2, p. 48 ; Ball, t. c. p. 217; Hume, t. c. p. 217, 

 note ; Anders. Zool. Eaped. Yunnan, Aves, p. 641 (1878) ; Legge, B. 

 Ceylon, p. 523 (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 101 ; Vidal, Sir. F. 

 1880, p. 67 ; Butler, t. c. p. 406. 

 Priuia lufula, Godiv.-Aust. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 47 ; id. J. A. S. Beng. 

 xliii. pt. 2, p. 165, pi. ix. fig. 1 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 397 ; 

 Hume 8> Davis. Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 348 ; Hutne, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 101. 

 Prinia albogularis, Wald. Ann. Nat Hist. (4) v. p. 219 (1870). 

 Prinia pectoralis, Legge, Mem. B. Ceylon in Ceylon Blue-book, p. 9 

 (1874). 



Adult. General colour above cindery grej', a little paler on the 

 lower back and rump ; lesser wing-coverts light brown ; the median 

 coverts, greater coverts, bastard wing, and primary-coverts ashy 

 brown, margined with light brown ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 margined with rufous, the inner secondaries more ashy ; U2}per tail- 

 coverts like the back ; tail-feathers ashy brown, barred across with 

 dusky under certain lights, the centre leathers with a blackish sub- 

 terminal mark but no pale tip, all the rest tipped with white, with 

 a distinct subterminal bar of black ; crown of the head like the 

 back ; lores dusky, as well as the feathers above the eye ; ear- 

 coverts cindery grey like the head on the upper parts, yellowish 

 white on the lower half like the cheeks and throat : fore neck and 

 chest cindery grey, forming a broad band across ; breast and abdomen 

 yellowish white : sides of the body and flanks slightly tinged with 

 ashy; thighs tawny buff ; under tail- coverts white; under wing-coverts 

 and axUlavies yellowish white ; quills below brown ; inner edge 

 of quills buffy whitish ; " bUl black ; legs and feet fleshy yellow, in 

 some with a faint tinge of brown on the tarsus ; claws brown ; eye- 



