6. LrSCINIOLA. 121 



C. Bill long and slender ; rictal bristles obsolete. 



Outside tail-feathers I'O to O-o inch shorter 



than the longest. (Subgeueric gi-oup Dumeticol^.) 



d. Tail longer than the wing. 



a'. Culmeu 0-7 toO'G2 inch. Under mandi- 

 ble nearly black. Bastard primary less 

 than half the length of the second . . major, p. 124. 



b'. Culmeu O-ol to 0-5 inch. Under mandi- 

 ble pale horn-colour. Bastard primary 

 half the length of the second luteiventris, p. 12.5. 



e. Tail shorter than the wing. 



c'. Outside tail-feathers 08 to 09 inch 



shorter than the longest. Axillaries 



greyish white thoracica, p. 124. 



d'. Outside tail-feathers O'o inch shorter 



than longest. Axillaries pale bufBsh 



yellow ... Jlaviveniris, p. 131. 



D. Bill moderately long and generally slender ; 



rictal bristles fairly developed. Outside 

 tail-feathers 0'2 toO'l inch shorter than the 



longest. (Subgeueric group Heebivoculje.) 



/. Bill short and thick, and wide at the base. 



Secondprimary about equal to the eighth. scJncarzi, p. 128. 

 g. Bill moderately long and slender. 



e'. Axillaries and imder wiug-coverts buil". 

 a". Upper parts earthy brown ; eye- 

 stripe pale buft". Underparts shading 



fi'om butf to white fuscata, p. 127. 



b". Upper parts earthy brown ; eye- 

 stripe bright yellow. Underparts 

 shading from dark bufSsh yellow to 



pale huffish yellow indica, p. 126. 



c". Upper parts russet-brown ; eye- 

 stripe pale buff. Underparts shading 

 from yeUowisli butf to yellowish 



white armandi, p. 1.30. 



d". Upper parts dark olive-brown ; eye- 

 stripe pale olive-bro-«ni and ^■ery 

 obscure. Underparts shading fi'om 

 dark yellowish olive to light yel- 

 lowish olive fuliffintveuti-is, p. 129. 



f. Axillaries and under wing-coTerts white. 

 e". Length of wing 2-05 to 1'95 inch. 

 The whole of the underparts ashy 

 white neylecta, p. 131. 



1. Lusciniola aedon. 



Muscicapa aedon. Pall. Reis. liiiss. Heic/is, iii. p. 69.5 (1776). 



Turdus aedon {Pull.), Pallas, Zoo</): Pusso-Asiat. i. p. 459 (1811). 



Phragamaticola olivacea, Jerd. Madras Juitrn. xiii. pt. ii. p 129 

 (1844, ex Blyth MS., descr. nidi.). 



Arundiuax olivaceus, Ph/f/i, J. A. S. Ben;/, xiv. p. .59-5 (184-5) ; TTodr/s. 

 MS. Brain'iif/s (in the Brit. Mus.) of B. of JS^epal, Appendix, 

 pi. 39. no. 9.;0 (circ. 1S46); Bp. Consp. i. p. 287 (IboO) ; Bli/th, 

 P. Z. S 1862, p. 316; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 157 (186-3). 



Salicaria ( Calamoherpe) aedon (Pa^/.), Schrenck, Eeis. u. Forsch 

 Amur!, i. p. -367 (1860). 



