130 TTTRDID^. 



Phylloscopus fiiliginiveiitris (ffodt/s.), SeeboJun, Ibis, 1877, p. 88. 

 Ivusciuiola fuliginiveutria (IIod(/s.), Scebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 277. 



The general colour of the upper parts is dark olive-brown : the 

 wings and tail-feathers are didl chocolate-brown ; the eye-stripe, 

 which is very indistinct, and the whole of the underparts, including 

 the axiUaries and under wing-coverts, are pale olive-brown, yel- 

 lowish on the throat and cenire of the belly ; inner margin of quills 

 dark greyish buff. Eill Phylloscopine ; both mandibles dark brown, 

 the under mandible slightly paler at the base. Fourth and fifth 

 primaries longest ; second primary about equal to the tenth ; bastard 

 primary more than half the length of the second, the exposed part 

 measuring 0-7 to 0-8 inch. Legs, feet, and claws brovra. Tail 

 shorter than the wing ; outside feathers 0"2 inch shorter than the 

 longest. Length of wing 2-3 to 2*1 inches, tail 2*0 to 1*75, culmen 

 0-45 to 0-5, tarsus 0-8. 



The female is supposed to be similar to the male. Nothing is 

 known of the changes of plumage of this species, no sexed or dated 

 skins being accessible in this country. We maj^ however, safely 

 assume that they are unimportant, and that the effects of abrasion 

 are also slight in a ))ird which can scarcely be called a migrant. 



So far as is known, the Smoky Grass-Warbler is confined to Nepal 

 and Sikkim, breeding at some elevation on the hills, and retiring to 

 the valleys during the cold season. 



fi, b, c, (J, e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types oi Horornis fulij/iveiiter, Hodgs.) 

 /. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hoch/son). India Museum. 



10. Lusciniola armandi. 



Abvomis armandi, Milne-Edwarih, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. i. p. 22 

 (18Go); Prjev. Bowlm/s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 172 (1877). 



Svlvia armandi {M.-Edivarcls), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 217. no. .3093 

 "(1869). 



Oreopneuste davidii, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. .355. 



Oreopneuste armandi {MUiie-Ediv.), David et Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 265 (1877). 



Lusciniola armandi {Milne-Edir.), Secbohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 277. 



This species appears to be distinct from L.fwicata. I have only 

 seen the skin in my own collection (Moupin, Ph'e David, July 5, 

 1869), and two skins in the Museum of the Jardin do Plantes, col- 

 lected by the same eminent field-naturalist. These sldns all agree 

 in having the bill somewhat stouter than that of L. fuscata, and in 

 having the throat and belly greenish white instead of huffish white. 

 The feet are more slender than those of L. fuscata, and much more 

 so than those of L. schwarzi. In all other respects there is no 

 apparent difference between the two species. The height of the bill 

 at the nostrils oi L. fuscata measures O'OO inch, of L. armandi O'll, 

 and of L. schwarzi 0'15. 



Wing with the third to the sixth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest ; second primary about equal to the eightli or slightly 

 shorter ; bastard primary 0*7 to 0'05 inch. Outer tail-feathers O'lo 



