128 TTJRDID^. 



General colour of the upper parts brown ; a narrow, well- 

 defined buffish-white ej'e-stripe extends from the base of the bill as 

 far as the nape ; the feathers before the eye and behind the eye 

 as far as the nape dark brown ; quills brown ; tail-feathers brown, 

 the inside webs narrowly edged with pale buff. General colour of 

 the underparts huffish white, shading into buff on the breast, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and thighs 

 buff; inner margin of quills greyish buff. Bill Phylloscopine, upper 

 mandible dark brown, under mandible pale, darkening towards the 

 tip ; rictal bristles fairly developed. Fourth and fifth primaries 

 longest ; second primarj- equal in length to the ninth or tenth ; 

 bastard pi'imary 0-8 to Ow inch, rather more than half the length of 

 the second. Tail shorter than the wing ; outside feathers 0-1 inch 

 shorter than the longest. Legs, feet, and claws brown. Length of 

 ■wing, male 2-55 to 2-3 inches, female 2-35 to 2-15 ; length of tail, 

 male 2-4 to 2-2, female 2-2 to 2-0 ; length of culmen 0-45 to 0-49 ; 

 tarsus 0-9 to 0-8. 



The female docs not differ from the male. The only effects of 

 abrasion appear to be that the buff of the underparts becomes slightly 

 greyer. After the autumn moult the brown of the upper parts is 

 slightly richer, the eye-stripe is pale buff, and the breast, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts are a rich buff approaching chestnut. 



Elyth's Grass-Warbler breeds in South-eastern Siberia and Japan, 

 passes through South-eastern Mongolia and North China on migra- 

 tion, and winters in Formosa, South China, Assam, Burma, and 

 near Calcutta. 



a. S ,b.2 ad. sk. Lake Bnikal, Sept. 7, Aug. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



28 (Z»;-. Dt/ljowsJa/). 



c. Ad. sk. Siberia {Middmdovff ?) . Prof. Brandt [C.]. 



d,e.AA.8k. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. l\. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of Horornis fulvivcntris, Hodgson.) 



g. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



h. Ad. sk. Calcutta {As. Soc). India Museum. 



i. 5 ad. sk. Upper Burma, Jan. 9. Dr. Anderson [C.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Amoy, China (M. Swin- F. Godnian and O. Sal- 



hoe). viu, Esqrs. [P.]. 



I. Ad.sk. Amoy, April (<S?t'?7?7ioe). HenrySeebohni,Esq. [P.]. 



8. Lusciniola schwarzi. 



Salicaria cantillans { Temm. et Schl.) npud Swinlioe, P. Z. S. 1862, 



p. 316. 

 Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) schwarzi, Raddc, Rcis. Sibir., Vog. p. 260 



'(1863). 

 Sylvia schwarzi (Radde), Gray, Hnnd-l. B. i. p. 215.no. 3041 (1869). 

 Arundinax flemingi, Sunnhoe, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 440. 

 Herbivocula flemingi (Stvinh.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 354 ; 



David et Oust. Ois. Cliine, p. 245 (1877). 

 Phylloscopus brooksi, Hume, Stray Feath. ii. p. 605 (1874). 

 Phyllopneuste brooksi {Hume), BlytU ^- Wald, B. Burin, p. 105 



(1875). 



