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TIMELIID^. 



4-1 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1"8, tail 1"65, tarsus 0*8. (Mus. 

 R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



An adult pair in breeding-plumage measure — 



a. cJ. Pegu, June 20, 1879. 

 h. 5. Pegu, July 20, 1879. 



There seems to be no difference in the colour of the sexes ; but 

 the female appears to be slightly smaller. 



The winter plumage is reddish brown above, with verj^ distinct 

 rufescent upper tail- coverts ; the tail more rufous, as well as the 

 outer aspect of the quiUs ; the head is reddish brown like the back ; 

 and underneath the general colour is yellower, the flanks and 

 thighs being perceptibly more tawny ; upper mandible and lower 

 mandible from tip to angle of gonys dark horny brown ; rest of bill 

 bluish fleshy {Davison). Total length 4-5 inches, wing 1'77, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0*7. 



The eyebrow is often very distinct in this species, and sometimes 

 nearlj'^ obsolete, and this in individuals killed at the same season of 

 the year. 



Ifah. From Nepal throiigh the eastern Himalayas and the 

 Burmese countries as far as Salaneore in Malacca. 



b. Hiem. sk. 



c. c? ad. sk. 



d. (S ad. sk. 



e,f.s; g, h. 2 



ad. sk. 

 i. (S hiem. sk. 



k. (S ad. sk. 



/. Juv. hiem. sk. 



m. Hiem. sk. 

 n. Hiem. sk. 



Bhamau, Upper 

 Jan. 3, 1868. 



Burmah, 



Zeinganein, Pegu, May 26, 



1876. 

 Lower Pegu, June 20, 1879. 



Lower Pegu, July 1878. 



Pahpoon, Salween river, 

 Tenasserim, Dec. 30, 1873 

 (W. Davison). 



Malewoon, Teuasserim, 

 April 30, 1875 {W. Davi- 

 son ). 



Foot of Arakan hills, east- 

 ern side. 



Nepal. 



Nepal {Hodgson). 



Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 

 {Prinia rufescens, An- 

 derson, /. c.) 



Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 

 [C.]. 



Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 

 [0.]. 



Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 

 [C.l. 



A. O.'Hume, Esq. 



A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 India Museum. 



12. Cisticola cinereicapilla. 



Prinia ciuereocapilla, 3Ioorc, P. Z. >S. 1854, p. 77 (ex Hod(/s. M8S.) ; 

 Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 322 (1854) ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind.'\\. p. 172 (1859); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 23; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 i. p. 196, no. 2700 (1809) ; Hume, Nests S,- Et/gs Lid. B. p. 341 

 (1873) ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 242 ; A. Anders. P. Z. .S'. 1878, 

 p. 370 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 320, 1879, p. 101, 1880, p. 286. 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, sides of the rump 



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