136 TrRDID.B. 



brown ; eye-stripe greyish white, indistinct, but passing a short dis- 

 tance behind the eye ; wings and tail dark russet-brown, the out- 

 side webs edged with rich russet-brown ; chin, throat, and centre 

 of belly white, shading into ash-grej' on the sides of the breast and 

 into brownish grey on the flanks and under tail-coverts, the latter 

 tipped with white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale brownish 

 grey with white margins; inner margin of quills pale brown. 

 Bill Phylloscopine ; upper mandible dark brown, under mandible 

 pale horn-colour, darker towards the tip ; rictal bristles almost 

 obsolete. Wing considerably concaved ; fourth, fifth, and si:xth 

 primaries nearly equal and longest ; second primary about as long 

 as the secondaries ; bastard primary rather more than half the length 

 of the second. Tail about equal to the wing, sometimes slightly 

 shorter, sometimes slightly longer, the outside feathers 0-3 to 0'4 

 inch shorter than the longest. Legs, feet, and claws ver)' pale brown. 

 Length of wing, male 2-6 to 2-15 inches, female 2-25 to 2-15 ; 

 taif2-G to 2-15'; culmen 0-56 to 0-48 ; tarsus 0-92 to 0-76. 



The female is generally smaller and less suliject to vary in size 

 than the male. After tJie autumn mmilt the upper parts are of a 

 richer russet-brown, almost coffee-coloured, and the white of the 

 underparts is greyer and more restricted. Birds of the year are 

 scarcely to be distinguished from adults. 



Cetti's Bush-Warbler is a resident on both shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean, extending eastwards as far as Turkestan. It is found in 

 the south of France, Spain, Algeria, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, 

 Palestine, and Egypt. In Persia it is probably also a resident; but 

 in Turkestan it is undoubtedly a migrant, apparentlj' breeding there 

 and wintering in Scinde. 



o. cJad.sk. Karij valley, N. Persia, W.T.Blauford,Esq.[C.]. 



7000 feet, Aug. 17. 



b. (S ad. sk. Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



c. 2 ad.sk. Villacidro, Sardinia, E. B. Slianie, Esq. [P.]. 



U^y 12 (A. B.Brooke). 



d. Sk. Gibraltar. Col. Irby [P.]. 



2. Cettia fortipes. 



Ilorornis fortipes, Hwhjs. MS. Drawhu/s (in the Brit. 3fm.) of B. of 



Nejxil, Passeres, pi. (33. no. 850, midc Hodqs. Grat/s Zool. Miitc. 



p. 82.no. 8.50 (1844, deser. mill.); Ilode/s. P. Z. ".S. 1845, p. :51 



(descr.prim.); Bli/fh,J. A. >S. Bemj. xiv. p. 584(1845) : 6Vo)/, C<d. 



Manim. 8fc. Nepal Coll. Kodql p. 04 (1846); Bp. Cdmp. i. 



p. 290 (1850) ; Jerd. B. Ind. u. p. 162 (186-3). 

 Diymoica brevicaudata, Bhjth, J. A. S. Bent/, xvi. p. 4-59 (1847). 

 Eegukis fortipes (Hodi/s.), Gra;/, Gen. B. i. p. 175 (1848). 

 Salicaria ?, Hodgx. MS. Drawine/s (in the Brit. 3Ius.) of B. of 



Nepal, Appendix, pi. 40. no. 900, and pi. 41. no. 928, wide 

 Horomis assimilis, Gray, Cat. Mamm. S)-c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. .30 



(186:{). 

 Horeites robustipes, Stcinhoe, Ibis, 186G, p. 398 ; Stcinkoe, P. Z. S. 



I87I, p. 351 ; David et Oust. Ois. ChtTie, p. 264 (1877). 

 Prinia robiLstipes (-Si^jw/t.), Graij, Hand-l. /Ai.p. l96.no.2713(1869). 



