144 TURDID.'B. 



Misc. p. 82. no. 848 (1844, descr. null.) ; Bli/th, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. 



pt. ii. p. 585 (1845); Gray, Cat. Mamm. Sfc. Nepal Coll. Hodys. p. 05 



(1846) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. p. 322 (1854) ; 



Jerd. B. Ind.'ii. p. 1G3 (1863). 

 Horeites scliistilatus, Hodys. MS. Drawings {in the Brit. Mus.) of 



B. of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 62«. fig. 2, mule 

 Nivicola schistilata, Hodys. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. no. 860 (1844, 



descr. null.) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. pt. ii. p. 586 (1845). 

 Orthotomus (Prinia) bruuuifrons, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 29 (descr. 



prim.). 

 Oitliotomus (Horeites) pollicaiis, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 30. 

 Orthotomus (Horeites) scliistilatus, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 30. 

 Horeites schistilatus (Hodgs.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. Src. Nepal Coll. 



Hodqs. p. 65 (1846) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 3Ius. E.I. Co. p. 323 



(1854). 

 Drymoica schistilata (Hodgs.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 164 (1848). 

 Drymoica pollicaria (Hodgs.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 164 (1848). 

 Horeites bruuneifrons (Hodgs.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 281 (1850). 

 Horeites poUicaria (Hodys.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 281 (1850). 

 Priuia brunneifrons (Hodgs.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 196. no. 2709 



(1869). 

 Prinia schistilata (Hodgs.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 196. no. 2710 



(1869). 

 Prinia polUcaria (Hodgs.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 196. no. 2711 (1869). 

 Cettia brimneifrons (Hodgs.), Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 36. 



General colour of the upper parts dark russet-brown, shading 

 iuto dark rich coffee-colour on the nape and head ; lores and the 

 feathers behind the eye dark brown ; eye-stripe huffish white, well 

 defined and extending to the nape ; wings and tail dark russet- 

 brown, the outside webs edged with russet-brown. Chin and 

 centre of belly nearly white, shading into ash-grey on the sides of 

 the neck and breast, and into russet-brown on the flanks, thighs, 

 aud under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts nearly 

 white, the latter mottled with dark brown on the shoulder ; inner 

 margin of quills pale biiffish brown. BiU Phylloscopine ; upper 

 mandible dark browu, under mandible pale horn-colour, shading 

 into dark brown at the tip ; rictal bristles small. Wing considerably 

 concave, the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest ; second primary considerably shorter than the secondaries ; 

 first primary more than half the length of the second. Tail shorter 

 than the wing, the outside feathers 0-6 inch shorter than the 

 longest. Legs, feet, and claws pale brown. Length of wing 1-95 

 to 1-7 inch, tail 1-8 to 1-5, culmen 0-45 to 0-4, tarsus 0-75 to 0-73. 



In some skins the rich coftee-colour of the head is not quite 

 so dark as in others ; these I take to be females. It is not 

 known that there is any difference between summer and winter 

 plumage. In what are supposed to be birds of the year (H. pollicaris, 

 Hodgs.) the rich coffee-colour of the head is entirely absent, the 

 iipper parts being of a uniform dark russet-brown, and the white 

 and ash-grey of the underparts are replaced by light and dark 

 brownish yellow. 



The Xepalese Bush-Warbler breeds at high elevations on the 



