7. C'ETTIA. 137 



Neornis assimilis {Gray), Grm/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 217. no. 3096 

 (1869) ; Bhjth i,- Walden, B. Bnnn. p. 105 (1875). _ 



Arundiuax davidiaiia, Terr. N. Arch. Mus. Btdl. vi. p. 37 (1870) ; 

 Uinid ft Oii.'if. Ois. Chine, p. 255 (1877). 



Hoieitos pallidus, Brooks, J. A. S. Beny. xli. pt. ii. p. 78 (1872). 



Horeites biunnescens, Hume, Ibis, 1672, p. 109. 



Cettia fortipes {Hodys.), Seebohm, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 980 ; id. Ibis, 

 1879, p. 30. 



Cettia assimilis {Graff), Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 36. 



Cettia pallida {Brooks), Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 36. 



General colour of the upper parts russet-brown ; lores and the 

 feathers behind the eye dark russet-brown ; ej-e-stripe pale brown, 

 indistiuct, and soon losing itself behind the eye ; wings and tail 

 brown, the outside webs edged with russet-brown. The underparts 

 are pale huffish brown, shading into huffish brown on the breast and 

 flanks ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale yellow ; inner margin 

 of qmlls greyish white. Bill Sylviine rather than Phylloscopine, 

 dark brown, paler at the base of the under mandible ; rictal bristles 

 fairly developed. Wing short and blunt, the fourth to the seventh 

 primaries nearly equal and longest ; second primary shorter than 

 any of the succeeding ones ; bastard primary more than half the 

 length of the second, measuring O'oo to 0"Go inch. Tail geuerall)' 

 equal in length to the wing, sometimes a trifle shorter, and occa- 

 sionally a trifle longer ; outside feathers 0-45 inch shorter than 

 the longest. Legs, feet, and claws pale brown. Length of wing 

 2-28 to 1-88 inches, tail 2-21 to 1-86, culmen 0-5G to 0-48, 

 tarsus 0-83. 



There does not appear to be any difference in the colour of the 

 plumage between male and female, nor is it known that any change 

 takes jflace aftrr the sjjrimj moult. Birds of the year have the 

 upper parts paler and more tawny in colour, and the under- 

 parts of an almost uniform pale huffish brown, only very slightly 

 darker on the breast, and scarcely at all so on the flanks. 



The types of H. rohustijjes, Swinh., from Formosa, in my collection, 

 have the claw of the hind toe very slightly larger than is usual in 

 Indian birds ; probably only an individual variation. 



Ho far as is known, Hodgson's Bush- Warbler is confined to the 

 Himalayas from Cashmere to Assam, Western China, and the island 

 of Formosa. In all localities it is doubtless a partial migrant, 

 breeding at high elevations above the level of winter snow and 

 descending lower into the valleys during the cold season. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 (Tvpe of Horornis forlipes, Hodgs.) 

 B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 (Tvpes of Ilurornis assimilis, Grav.) 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. FotheriDgham, Esq. 

 [P.]. 

 Marshall). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 . Bellew). India Museum. 



