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olive^ the wiug lining and axillaries pure or nearly pure white • tail 

 feathers somewhat pale hair browu^ obscurely margined with rufesceut 

 olive; the shafts dull white below. "The plumage/' Mr, Hume says, 

 " is rather variable, and in some specimens the flanks and tail-coverts 

 are much browner than above described ; the upper surfece too varies 

 a good deal in its general appearance * * * all the quills are 

 margined on their inner webs albescent/' 



Dimensions from the fresh bird — sexes not differing appreciably 

 in size. 



Length. — 5-7 to 5 8 inches, expanse 7-3 to 7-5, tail from vent 2 to 2-2, 

 wing 2'4 to 2"o, wing when closed reach to within 1'25 to 1*4 of end of 

 tail, bill at front 0-42 to 0-47, tarsus 0-82 to 0-87, hind toe and claw 

 0*55, claw only from root to point 0'3, weight 0"35 to 0*4 oz., irides 

 brown to pale brown, feet dark horny grey, in some dusky brown, 

 legs dusky brown, soles pale yellowish, bill very dark brown, almost 

 black, paler on lower mandible. — Hume, Stray Feathers, vol, i,, p. 191. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Beloochistan, Persia and 

 Afghanistan. A winter visitant. 



Lusciniola neglectus, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p, 143; Blf. East. Pers. 

 ii. p. 182; 8eebohm,Ihis. 1877, p. 99; Murray, Hdhk., Zool., Src, Sind. 

 Phyllopneuste neglectus, p. 619, {Hume) Hume, Str. P. i. p. 195, 

 Lusciniola neglecta, Seeboh'ni, Ibis. 1880, p. 277 ; id. Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 p, 131. — Hume's Grass Warbler. 



The following is Mr. Hume's description of the species : — 



'^The lores are brownish white; a comparatively pure and very narrow 

 white streak runs from the nostrils over the lores and eyes, but not 

 beyond. The whole upper surface is dull earthy brown, with, in some, 

 a faintly olivaceous rufescent tinge on the back, most conspicuous on 

 the rump; the quills and tail are a moderately dark hair brown, 

 narrowly margined on the outer webs with pale olivaceous brown, much 

 the same colour as the upper parts; the secondaries are very narrowly 

 margined at the tips with albescent. The whole lower surface is 

 albescent, tinged with very pale fulvous fawn, or earthy brown, more 

 strongly so in some specimens than in others ; the sides and flanks are 

 pale earthy brown; the wing lining and axillaries are white, with at 

 times the faintest possible fulvous or brownish tinge. 



"Length. — 4 to 4*2 inches, expanse 6*25 to 6*4, tail from vent 1 '4 to 1*6, 

 wing barely 2 to 2-15, bill at front 0-27 to 0-3, tarsus 0-68 to 0-71. 

 The 4th primary, the longest, the 3rd and 5th a hair's breadth 

 shorter, the 2nd 0"26 to 0*3, and the 1st 1 to 1*1 shorter than the 

 4th, the irides are brown, the legs and feet black, the bill black, 

 paler or horny greenish in some at the base of the lower mandible." — 

 Str. F. i. p. 196. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Beloochistan and Persia. 

 A winter visitant ; chiefly affecting acacia groves. 



Gen. Cettia, Bp. ; Horeites, Hodgs. 



Tail rounded, lateral tail feathers short; tarsi robust, scutellated 

 in front. 



