ORTHOTOMUS. 151 



Cettia cetti, Mann. Mem. Ace. Tor. xxx. p. 254; Tern. Man. 

 d' Urn. i. p. 194; DecjL Orn. Eur. i. p. 578; Seehohm, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mas. i. p. 135. Bradypterus cetti, (Marm.) Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 89; 

 Dresser, Ibis. 1876, p. 89. Cettia cetioides^ Hume, Str. F. i. p. 194. 

 Cettia stolickza3. Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 520. Cettia sericea, Natt. fide 

 Tern. Man. d' Orn. i. p. 197; Murray, Hdbh., Zool., §-c., Sind, p. 155. — 

 Cettis' Bush Waeblee. 



" A spot in front of the eyes dusky ; a streak from the nostrils over 

 the eye and a circle I'ound the eye fulvous white ; the forehead, crown, 

 and whole upper surface a warm rufous or ferruginous brown, more 

 rufous on the ramp and upper tail-coverts; the quills and tail hair 

 browD, magined with rufescent olive; ear-coverts, sides of the neck, 

 body, flanks and vent feathers a pale dtdl greyish or earthy brown ; 

 chin, throat, breast, and abdomen white, lower tail-coverts slightly 

 rufous brown (webs very lax and much disunited) narrowly tipped with 

 white; axillaries and wing lining slightly greyish white; the edge of 

 the wing just above the base of the primaries is white; in some few 

 specimens, the eye streak extends beyond the eye, above more than 

 half of the ear-coverts, but in most it ceases just beyond the posterior 

 angle of the eye; irides brown; legs and feet pale brown or fleshy 

 brown, darker on toes and claw ; bill dark horny brown, but paler on 

 lower mandible. 



" Length. — 5"8 to 6'5 inches, expanse 7-5 to 8*4, tail from vent 2*4 to 

 3, wing 2'5 to 2*8, wings, when closed, reach to within from 1-2 to 2 of 

 end of tail; bill at front 0*4 to 0*5, tarsus 0*8 to nearly 0-9, weight 0*4 

 oz.^^ — Stray Feathers, vol. i. p. 191. 



Mr. Hume gives an interesting account of its skulking habits among 

 the almost impenetrable rushes. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, and Afghanistan. Found in 

 France, Spain, Algeria, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine and Turkistan. 



Sub-Fanjily, DEYMOICINyE,— Wren Warblers. 



Bill moderately long, compressed; wings short, rounded; tail long. 



Gen. Orthotomus. — Horsf. 



Bill slender, basally wide ; rictal bristles few ; 5th and 6th quills of 

 wing longest and equal ; tail narrow, short and rounded. 



Orthotomus longicauda, GmeL, Mag. de Zool. 1836, t. 5253; 

 Mnrrai/, Hdbk., Zool., Sfc, Sind, p, 163; Jerd. B. of Ind. ii. p. 165, 

 No. 530. Orthotomus sphenurus, Sws. C. of B. f. 135; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 161, pi. 48, f. 1. 



Forehead and crown rufous ; back of head and neck ashy with a very 

 faint rufous tinge ; sides of nape with two dark brown setjB on each 

 side ; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish green ; 

 edge of wing white ; primaries and secondaries brown, edg-ed with olive 

 green, more distinct on the secondaries; all, for two-thirds their length, 

 narrowly margined basally on the inner webs with whitish ; under 



