11. CISTICOIA. 



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/. Hiem. .sk. West of Cbanda, S.E. W. T. Blanford, Esa 



Berar, Jan. 1,1870. ("P 1 ' h- 



""•/k- '''• 1 JJ'P'l- . zr . ^ ^- H. Hodgson, Esq. 



«-r. Hiem.sk. Nepal (iZbrfi/.o«). India MuseSm. ^ 



«, t.mem. sk. Bootan (Pe,«&er/on). India Museum. 



u. Ad. sk. Muangrla, Rauda valley. Dr. J. Anderson rCl. 



May 19, 1868. '- -^ 



V. c? ad. sk. Thayetmyo, April 4, Eugene W. Gates 



1873. Bsq TQ -| ' 



w. cJ juv. sk. Thayetmyo, June 2, Eugene W. Gates 



18/2. -Rcr, rn 1 ' 



. Esq. rC.l. 



■>-'■ c? sk. Lower Pegu, Feb. 29, Eugene TV' 



Gates, 

 Gates, 

 Gates, 



^ , , ^ 18^0- Esq. [C.]. 



!/. 6 ad. sk. Lower Pegu, August 16, Eugene W. Gates, 



o 1 , T ^^'^-^ Esq. [C.l. 



s. 2 ad. sk. Lower Pegu, Jidy 24, Eugene i\ 



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11. Cisticola beavani. 



Piinia beavani, mild. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 5-51 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1867, 

 ip m- Gra^, Hand-l B. i. p. 196, no. 2704 (1869); Hume 4 

 Oates, Sir. F. 18/ o, p. 136; Oates, Str. F. 1877, p 1.58- Wald 

 B. Bunnah, p. 119 (1875) ; Hume ^- Davis. Str. F. 1878 toI i" 



P" '^fn ' ^""fj ^x'"- ^- ^^"^' PP- 101' 1'^"; Bimjham, Str. F. 188o! 

 p. 18b; JJardl. Ramsm/, Orn. Works Tivced. p. -Ifi (1881) 

 Prima rufesceus, Bh/th, J. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 456 (1847)'- Grav 

 ?'\^- ^aP- 1^- (1S^'^> ; ^^y^^'' <^'«^- B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 143 

 ^ £j^l ^J'- ^°"'''- ^- P- ^^^ (l'^-50); &''•«(/, ^««fW. B. i. p. 196. 



Wald. B Bunn ^. 119 (1875); Anders. Zool. Expel Yunnan, 

 Aves, p. 640 (18/8) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 101. 



Adult male (type of species). General colonr above brown, with 

 tufts of fulvous-white feathers on each side of the rump, and indi- 

 cations of dusky cross bars on the lower back and rump ; lesser 

 wing-eoverts and median coverts like the back, the greater coverts 

 with a slight rufous tinge on the outer margin; bastard-wing 

 feathers and pnmary-coverts dusky brown, with narrow rufous 

 edgings ; quills dusky brown, edged with rufous, deeper towards 

 the base of the primaries ; inner secondaries brown like the back • 

 upper tail-covcrts a little more fulvous brown than the back ■ tail- 

 teat hers Hght brown with fulvous edgings, aU but tlie centre tail- 

 teathors tipped with white, before which is a distinct subterminal 

 spot of black ; crown of the head, occiput, and nape slaty grey • 

 lores white, as weU as a little streak above the eye : feathers round 

 the eye whitish; ear-coverts slatv grey with pale shaft-lines- 

 checks, throat, and fore neck white, the latter tinged with yellow 

 breast fulvous; abdomen whiter; sides of the 1)ody and Hanks 

 fulvous; thighs tawny; under tail-coverts buffy whitish ; under win-- 

 coverts and axiUaries light tawny buff; quills below dusky browu- 

 inner edge of quills tawny buff; "bill black; legs and feet pale 

 or dark pinkish fleshy; claws light brown; irides orange-brown 

 hght wood-brown, or reddish yeUow " ( W. Davison). Total len<^th' 



