124 TTJEDTD^. 



3. Lusciniola major. 



Dumeticola major, Brooks, J. A. S. Beng. xli. p. 77 (1872). 



General colour of the upper parts neutral brown ; lores pale ; 

 eye-stripe indistinct greyish white, losing itself behind the eye ; 

 wings and tail a nearly uniform brown ; chin and upper throat 

 white, the lower throat and the sides of the whole throat with 

 dark-brown cuneiform spots ; the rest of the underparts obscurely 

 mottled white and pale brown, the white predominating on the 

 centre of the bellj- and under tail- coverts ; axillaries nearly white ; 

 under wing-coverts pale brown, mottled with dark brown on the 

 shoulder ; inner margin of quills pale brown. Bill long and slender, 

 both mandibles dark brown, approaching black ; no rictal bristles. 

 Wing narrow, short, and blimt; third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 nearly equal and longest ; second primary about equal to the 

 eighth ; bastard primary 0-5 to 0*7 inch. Tail longer than the wing, 

 the outside feathers 0-8 to l-O inch shorter than the longest. Legs, 

 feet, and claws pale horn-colour. Length of wing 2-45 to 2'26 

 inches, tail 2-65 to 2-46, culmen 0-7 to 0-62, tarsus 0-9. 



The female only differs from the male in having fewer spots on 

 the throat. Birds of the year have more buff on the breast, and the 

 spots on the throat are very few and very obscure. It is not known 

 what changes of plumage take place in the adult birds after the 

 autumn moult. 



Brooks's Grass-Warbler breeds in Cashmere, probably migrating 

 towards the plains at the approach of the cold season. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Ladak, June 29, 1874 Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



{Capt. Biddulph). 



4. Lusciniola thoracica. (Plate VI.) 



Salicaria affinis, Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Mus.) of B. of 



Nepal, I'asseres, pi. 53. no. 826, unde Hodgs. Gray's Zoo'l. Misc. 



p. 82. no. 826 (1844, desc. null.) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal 



Coll. Hodgs. pp. 64, 151 (1846, desc. secund.). 

 Dumeticola thoracica, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 584 (1845, desc. 



jn-hn.) ; Blyth, Cat. B.'Mus. As. Soc. p. 183 (1849). 

 Calamodvta alliuis (Jlodgs.), Gray, Gen.B. i. p. 172 (1848); id. Hand-l. 



B. i. p'208. no. 2950 (1869). 

 Bradypterus affinis {Hodqs.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 43 (1850). 

 Calamohei-pe affinis {Hodgs.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 285 (1850). 

 Dumeticola affinis (Hodr/s.), Horsf. ij- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. 



i. p. 334 (1854) ; Jenl. B. Ind. n. p. 158 (1863) ; Stvi?ihoe, P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 354 ; Tacz. Journ. Orn. 1872, p. 354 ; Brooks, Stray Feath. 



1875, p. 286 ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii. p. 140 (1870) ; 



Prjev. Rowley's Om. Misc. 1877, p. 169; David et Oust. Ois. 



Chine, p. 247 (1877). 

 Dumeticola brunneipectus, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 19. 

 LocusteUa taczanowskia, Swiyihoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 355. 

 Tribura luteiveutris, Hodgs. apud David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 239 



(1877). 



