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3. Cettia flavolivacea. 



Neoruis flavolivacea, Hoclys. MS. Drawmr/s (in the Brit. Mus.) of 



B. of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 61. fig. 1, mid^ Hoch/s. Grai/s Zool. 



Misc. p. 82. uo. 85.3 (1844, *.st;-. nnU.); Hodi/s. per Bhjfh, J. A. S. 



Beng. xiv. pt. ii. p. 5'JO ( I84'j, ilr.-icr. prii)i.); (xrai/, Cut. Mamm. ^c. 



Nepal Coll. Hodqs. pp. CC, 152 (184()) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. 



p. 144 (1849) ;■ Bp. Consp. i. p. 290 (1850) ; Horsf. ^ Muore, 



Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. p. 324 (1854); Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 188 



(1803) ; Blyth i^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 104 (1875). 

 Neornis cacharensis, Hodgs. 3IS. Drawings (in the Brit. 3Ius.) of B. 



of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 61. fig. 2, unde Hodgs. Gray^s Zool. Misc. 



p. 82. no. 855 (1844, descr. nidi.) ; Hodgs. per Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. 



xiv. p. 590 (1845) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. 1^-c. Neped Coll. Hodgs. p. 67 



(1840). 

 Sylvia flavolivacea (Hodgs.), Gray. Gen. B. i. p. 174 (1848) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 217. no. 3094 (1869). 

 Cettia flavolivacea (Hodgs.), Seehohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 36, 



General colour of the upper parts dark brownish green, slightly 

 paler on the rump ; lores and the feathers behind the eye brown ; 

 eye-stripe huffish yellow, rather indistinct, but extending behind the 

 ej^e ; wings and tail brown, the outside webs margined with 

 brownish green ; chin, throat, and centre of belly deep yellow, 

 shading into brownish yellow on the breast, flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts bright yellow ; 

 inner margin of quills nearly white. Bill Phylloscopine, dark brown, 

 under mandible palo at the base ; rictal bristles well developed. 

 Wing concaved ; fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest ; second primary slightly shorter than the secondaries ; first 

 primary more than half the length of the second. Tail about equal 

 to the wing, sometimes slightly longer, sometimes slightly shorter, 

 the outside feathers 0-5 to 0-4.5 shorter than the longest. Legs, feet, 

 and claws pale brown. Length of wing 2-15 to 1"9 inches, tail 2-2 

 to 1-9, culmcn 0-51 to 0-48, tarsus 0-9. 



Males (N. fl.avoUvacea, Hodgs.) are supposed to bo slightly larger 

 than females (N. cacharensis, Hodgs.). In some skins (Hodgs. MS. 

 Drawings, Appendix, pi. 50. no. 976) the iippor parts are slightly 

 darker and browner. I take this to be the plumage after the autumn 

 moult, and possibly also of Inrds of the year. 



The Himalayan Bush-Warbler breeds at high altitudes on the 

 Himalayas from Nepal to Assam, descending towards the plains 

 during the cold season. 



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

 (Types of Neornis flavolivacea, Ilodgs.) 



B. II. "Hodgson, Esq. fP.]. 

 (Tv]ie of Neornis cacharensis, Ilodgs.) 



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



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