un Dr. Jerdon's 'Birds of India.' 23 



be in the Calcutta Museum. Of course the beauty of the nest 

 in the living green leaf is lost in dry specimens. 



532. Prinia flaviventris. 



Delessert does not give this bird from the Nilgiris. P. soni- 

 tans, Swinhoe, of China and Formosa, is nearly allied to it, 

 and lays a similar remarkably coloured egg (bright brick-red, 

 without spots), as P. socialis also does occasionally, — such an 

 e^^, with the nest, of this species being figured by Mr. Fraser, 

 in his 'Zoologia Typica,^ for those oi Drymoipus inornatus. The 

 European Cettia sericea lays a similar egg, and has likewise 

 only ten rectrices ; but the C. africana, Bonap., has twelve rec- 

 trices, and appears to me to be a large Locustella. 



537. Prinia cinereocapilla. 



Mr. Hodgson figures P. stewarti with this name. 



539. CisTicoLA scHCENicoLA, Bp.; C.bninneicephala, Temm. 

 and Schl.; C tintinnabulans, Swinhoe (from Japan, China, and 

 Formosa) . 



Indian specimens in nestling plumage have the cap more or 

 less completely rufous-brown, which is not the case with some 

 stuffed young Cisticolce in the Zoological Society's house, except 

 just at the forehead. 



541. CisTicoLA TYTLERi, Blyth ; 'Buff-headed Warbler,' 

 Latham (Ibis, 1865, p. 44). 



548. SUYA FULIGINOSA. 



Probably identical with S. atrogularis. Mr. Hodgson, how- 

 ever, figures the egg of S. fuliginosa as rufous-white, with 

 minute rufous specks, that form a zone at the large end ; and 

 that of S. atrogularis as green, with rufous specks, more nume- 

 rous at the large end. 



SuYA GANGETiCA, Jcrdou, in. lit., sp. nov. 

 Plain brown above, rufescent on the head ; lower parts much 

 paler; throat whitish. Wing 2'25 inches, tail 3'75 inches. 

 Common along the Upper Ganges. 



550. BuRNEsiA LEPiDA, Blyth ; Gould, B. As. pt. vii. pi. 

 Identical with Malurus gracilis, Riippell, of Palestine and 

 North-eastern Africa, which specific name holds precedence. 



