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I found the nest in low jungle near Nellore, made chietiy of grass, 

 with a few roots and fibres, globular, large, with a hole at one side 

 near the top, and the eggs white, spotted very thickly with rusty 

 red, especially at the thick end. Nearly allied species are D. 

 validus, Blyth, from Ceylon, and D. poli/chrous, Temm., from Java 

 {Sut/a Blyllni, Bonap.) 



546. Drymoipus neglectus, Jerdon. 



Prinia, apnd Jerdon, 2nd Suppl. Cat., 121 bis— Blyth, Cat. 

 801— H()2{SF., C;it. 509— D. sylvatica, apud Blyth, J. A. S., 

 XVI., 458 — ■Tot-riingi, H. in Central India. 



The Allied Wkkn-Warbler. 



Descr. — Plumage greenish ashy brown, but with a decided tinge 

 of rufous throughout; beneath whitish, strongly tinged with olive 

 fulvous ; tail very faintly barred. 



Bill dusky above, fleshy beneath ; legs dingy fleshy; irides 

 amber colour. Length nearly G inches ; wing 2| ; tail 2^ to 3 ; 

 bill at front -^-q ; tarsus -f^. 



This species chiefly differs from D. sylvaticus in its more rufes- 

 cent tinge throughout. I obtained my specimens from the jimgles 

 skirtinof the base of the Eastern Ghauts and from the Vindhian 

 range near Mhow; and Mr. Blyth observed it in open bushy 

 ground near tree jungle, N. W. of Midnapore, in straggling 

 flocks of a dozen or more. It has also been procured in the 

 N. W. Provinces, and it is Tickell's species, from Central 

 India, J. A. S., 1848, p. 301, where he describes the nest and 

 eggs, which are very similar to that of sylvatica, the eggs being 

 described as fleshy white, with patches and scratches as of dried 

 blood, darker spots showing through the shell. " Its note," says 

 Mr. Blyth, " was a long continued and rapid repetition of the 

 sound tivit, twit.'" 



Gen. SuYA, Hodgs. 



Syn. Decurns, Hodgs. — Drymoica, pars. Auct. 



Char. — Bill stout and compressed ; gape with strong rictal 

 bristles ; tail of ten feathers, very long and much graduated; other- 

 wise as in Drymoipus. 



