11. CIBTICOLA. 257 



fulvescent ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard- wing feathers dusky, 

 externally fulvous ; primary-coverts dusky, with nari'ow rufous edges ; 

 quills light brown, externally rufous ; inner secondaries washed with 

 rufous; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers dull rufous, brighter rufous 

 on the edges, the centre feathers tipped with fulvous, with a subter- 

 minal dusky l)ar, the outer feathers with a whitish spot at the end ; 

 crown of the head bluish grey ; occiput and nape reddish brown like 

 the back ; a line across the base of the forehead, extending backwards 

 in a narrow eyebrow, pale tawny bufl"; in front of the eye an ashy 

 sjjot ; ear-coverts tawny buff, the upper edge ashy ; cheeks and the 

 under surface of the body tawny buff, paler on the abdomen ; sides 

 of the body and flanks richer fulvous ; thighs deep tawny ; under 

 tail-coverts pale tawny buff; under wiug-coverts and axillaries pale 

 tawuy buff, deeper on the edge of the wing ; quills below ashy brown ; 

 inner edge of quills rufescent. Total length 3-7 inches, culmeu 0'45, 

 wing 1-65, tail 1-95, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. Himalayas from Nepal westwards to the neighbourhood of 

 Gangaotri. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



c, d. x\d. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



«,/. Ad. etjuv. sk. Nepal (/fbctyson). India Museum. 



(Types of species.) 



13. Cisticola poliocephala. 



Prinia poliocephala, A. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 370, pi. 19; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 319 ; id. Sir. F. 1879, p. 101, 1880, p. 286. 



Very closely allied to C. heavani, from which it differs only in it8 

 filaty-grey head and entire absence of eyebrow. Total length 3'8 

 inches, culmen 0"45, wing 1'75, tail 1'8, tarsus G'B. 



Hah. Himalayas : Nepal and Kumaou. 



a. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



14. Cisticola ferruginea*. 



Cisticola ferruginea, Hewjl. Sijst. Uebers. p. 21 (1856) ; id. J.f. O. 



18G4, p. 2.59; id. /Z-is, 1869, p. 143 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. •^.2Qb 



(1809), iv. App. p. Ixxv (1873). 

 Drvmoica troglodytes, ^wi(«. Cat. descr. Ucc.^. 38(1864); Salvad. 



Jiiv. Crit. Aniin. p. 733, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1870). 

 Drymceca ferruginea, Heuyl. Ibis, 1869, p. 135. 

 Drymoica ferruginea. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 201, no. 2822 (1809). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above uniform rufous or 

 foxy red ; the wing-coverts dusky, edged with the same colour as 

 the back ; quills brown, edged with rufous like the back, the inner 

 secondaries entirely rufous ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; two 



* Whether the bird from Landana (Sliarpe & Boiiv. Bull. Soe. Zool. Fmnce, 

 1877, p. 47(); Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. oj3, 1881) was properly identilled, lam 

 not able now to say, as the specimen did not pa.s8 into the hands of the British 

 Museum. 



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