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General colour of the upper parts earthy brown, with a scarcely 

 perceptilile ochraceous tinge on tl:e rump; eye-stripe from the base 

 of the bill to over the eye deep yellow, shadinp: into buff behind the 

 eye to the nape ; lores and the feathers behind the eye earthy 

 brown ; quills brown, with very narrow pale tips ; tail-feathers 

 brown, narrowly tipped and margined on the inner web with greyish 

 white. General colour of the undcrparts huffish yellow, greyer on 

 the breast and flanks; axillaries and under wing-coverts buff; inner 

 margins of quills greyish buff. Bill Phylloscopine, upper mandible 

 dark brown, imder mandible pale horn-colour ; rictal bristles mo- 

 derately developed. "Wing rather short and blunt ; fourth and fifth 

 primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary about equal to 

 the tenth ; bastard primary 0-85 to 0"65 inch, sometimes more, some- 

 times less than half the length of the second. Tail shorter than 

 the wing, the outside feathers O'l inch shorter than the longest. 

 Legs, feet, and claws brown. Length of wing 2"65 to 2-2 inches, 

 tail 2-2 to 1-75, culmen 0-5o to 0-49, tarsus 0-8 to 0-75. 



The fimule scarcely differs from the male. After the autumn 

 moult the yellow of the underparts is slightly more buff. 



Jcrdon's Grass- \Yarbler probably breeds in the alpine districts of 

 the Himalayas, and winters in Central India. 



a. Ad.sk. Matheran, Bombay, Feb. 4, 1872. Major Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Almorah, N.W. India {Brooke). H. Seebohm, Esql! [P.]. 



7. Lusciniola fuscata. 



Phyllopr.euste fuscata, Bhjth, J. A. S. Benff. xi. p. 113 (1842); 



Bp. Comj). i. p. 290 (1850); Sicin/i. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 356; 



Homei/er, Joinii. Orn. 1872, p. 202 ; Blyth Sf Jf'alcltii, B. Btiniia, 



p. 105 (1875) ; Tacz. BnU. Soc. Zool. France, 1870, p. 140; Prjev. 



Bowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 171 (1877) ; Dacid et Oust. Ois. Chine, 



p. 2G7 (1877). 

 Horornis fidviyeiitiis, Hndqs. MS. Drmcings (in the Brit. Mun.) of 



Birds of Nipal, Passer'es, pi. 63. no. 878 {circ. 1844); Hodffs. 



P. Z. S. 18Jo, p. 31 ; Grai/, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. 



p. 04 (184(1) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. i90 (1850). 

 Phylloscopus bniniipus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 591 (1845) ; 



Bh/th, Cat. B. M>is. As. Soc. p. 185 (1849) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, 



Cat. B. 3Ius. E.I. Co. p. 338 (1864). 

 Sylvia fuscata (BIrith). Gray, Gnu B. i. p. 174 (1848). 

 Eegulus fidviventiis [Hodgs.), Gray, Gm. B. i. p. 175 (]8'18). 

 Phvllosfopua fnscnlus {Blyth), Blyth, Cat. B. Mvs. As. Soc. p. 185 



(1849); Jerdon, B. Ink. ii. p. 'l91 (1863); BItjth, Ibis, 1S67, 



p. 25 ; Seel/ohin, Ibis. 1877, p. 85 ; Hume, Stray Feath. vi. p. 352 



(1878); Sevbohm, Ibi% 1879, p. 11. 

 Sylvia (PhvUopneuste) sibirica, Midd. Sihir. Beise, p. 180 (1853) : 



Badde, Beis. Sibir., Vog. p. 2(0 (1863). 

 Sylvia bninnea {Blyth), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no. 3057 (1869). 

 Phyllopneuste bruuneus {Blyth), Blyth, Cat. Mamm. 8( B. of Burma, 



p. 105 (1875). 

 Phyllopseuste fuscata (Blyth), Giehel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 118 (1877). 

 Phyllopseuste brunnea [Blyth), Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 118 (1S77). 

 Lusciniola fuscata {Blyth), Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 277. 



