G. LX7SCINI0LA. 129 



Pliyllopueuste sehwarzi (liadde), Tacz. Bull. 8vc. Zuol. France, i. 



p. 140 (187(i). 

 Phyllcisciipus sehwarzi (Hadde), Scebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 84 ; Hume, 



S/rai/ Feath. vi. p. 353 (1878). 

 Herbivocula incerta, David et Oust. Ois. Chi7ie, p. 24() (1877). 

 Oreopaeuste atHuis, Daoid et Oust. loc. cit. p. 267 (1877). 

 Liiscioiola sehwarzi {Radde), Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 277. 



General colour of the upper parts dusky olive-brown, somewhat 

 less dusky on the rump ; eye-stripe pale buff from the base of the 

 bill to tlie eye, over and behind the eye to the nape pale huffish 

 white and very sharply defined ; lores aud the featliers behind the 

 eye brown ; quills brown, edged on the outside web with olive ; 

 tail-feathers brown, margined on the outside webs with olive and on 

 the inside webs with pale brown. General colour of the underparts 

 yellowish white, fading into nearly pure white on the throat and the 

 centre of the belly, buffer on the breast, flanks, and thighs, and 

 becoming yellowish buff on the under tail-coverts ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts buff" ; inucr margin of quills pale buff. Bill much 

 stouter than in t3'pical P/ujUoscopus ; upper mandible dark brown, 

 under mandible pale ; rictal bristles fairly developed. Tail shorter 

 than the wing ; outside feathers 0'2 to I'O inch shorter than the 

 longest. Fourth aud fifth primaries longest ; second primary inter- 

 mediate in length between the seventh and eighth ; bastard primary 

 frequently more than half the length of the second, the exposed 

 part measuring 0*75 to 0-9 inch. Legs, feet, and claws pale horn- 

 colour. Length of wing 2*5 to 2-35 inches, tail 2-2 to 2"U5, culmeu 

 0-48 to 0-5, tarsus 0-9 to 0-85. 



The female does not differ from the male. Most of the olive on 

 the upper parts disappears in very abraded skins, aud the under- 

 parts become paler. After the autumn, moult the u])per parts become 

 tawny olive Avhere they were dusky olive in spring, and the under- 

 parts arc more or less suffused all over with a tawny buff. The 

 eye-stripe is also much buffer. 



Itadde's Grass- Warbler breeds in 8outh-eastern Siberia, passes 

 through North China on migration, and winters in South China 

 where it borders on Thibet and in the Eurma peninsula. 



fl. cJ ad. sk. Lake Bailial, June 15 (Dr. Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dyboivshj) . 



9. Lusciniola fuliginiventris. 



Horornis ftdip-iveuter, ILid</so>i, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 31 ; Ilorsf. ^ 



Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. p. 335 (1854). 

 Horornis fuligiveutris (Hodffs.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal Coll. 



Ilodijs. p. ()4(184(!). 

 Rcgulus fuligiuoventris (Iladf/.^.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 175 (1848). 

 HorornLs fuliginiventris (Ilodys.), B/>. Consp. i. p. 290 (1850). 

 Hororais fuhgiuiventer {Ilvdyx.), Blyth. Ibis, 18G7, p. 2l. 

 Phylloscopus fiiligiuiveuter (llodys. ), Blyth, Ibis, 1807, p. 28 ; Blanf. 



J. A. S. Beny. xli. pt. 2, p. 54 (1872). 

 Svlvia fuliginiventris (Hodys.), Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 218. no. 3097 

 "(1809). 



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