158 PIIYLLOSCOPIN^. 



Hah. — Sind, Boloochistan, S. E. Persia, Afghanistan, East Turkistan, 

 Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Cashmere, Kiitch, Kattiawar, N. 

 Guzerat, Jodhpore, Concan, Deccau and South India. 



Hypolais caligata, Licld. Eversm. Reis. Bachara,^. 128; Deglc 

 et Gerbe. Orn. Eur. i. p. 510; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxxviii. 1875; 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 88; Murray, Hdbk., Zovl., S^s., Sind, p. 160; 

 Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Miis. vol. v. p. 86. Phyllopneuste rama, [Sijkes] 

 apud. Jerd. B. hid. vol. ii. p. 189 {pariim). Jerdonia agricolensis, 

 Ilume, Ibis, 1870, p. 182. Calaraodyta agricolensis {Hume) Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 494. Salicaria microptera, Severtz. Str. F. iii. p. 425; 

 id. vii. p. 397. — The Booted Tree Warbler. 



Male. — Head, hind neck, back, scapulars, ear-coverts and sides of the 

 neck a greyish brown. Superciliuni, extending from tlie base of the bill 

 to the ear-coverts, v^hitish buff; rump and upper tail coverts brownish, the 

 feathers of the rump tinged very slightly with a shade of rufescent. Wings 

 concolorous with the tail; their coverts as well as the primaries, secondaries 

 and tertiaries margined with rufescent brown, in some specimens 

 greyish white, more broadly on the tertiaries and wing-coverts. Edge 

 of wing and under wing and thigh-coverts pale huffish white ; tail 

 brown, the feathers narrowly margined with greyish w^hite, fulvescent in 

 some specimens ; the outer web of the outermost feather on each side 

 greyish or fulvous white, the others, except the centre feathers, tipped 

 greyish white or fulvous. Under surface pale buflfy white, albescent on 

 the chin, belly and lower tail-coverts, and tinged brownish on the 

 flanks. Bill daik brown; the lower mandible pale fleshy, dnsky 

 near the tip ; legs and feet fleshy or pale brownish yellow ; irides 

 brown. 



Length. — 4'5 to 5 inches, wing 2'2 to 2 38, tail from vent 1-95 to 2, 

 bill at front "35, tarsus '8. 



Hah. — India toNepaul and Cashmere; Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, 

 Deccan, Concan, Khandeish, Behar and Madras ; wintering in the 

 plains of India and breeding in Cashmere, Turkistan and Southern 

 Siberia. 



Hypolais obsoleta, {Severtz.) Seehohm. Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. 

 p. 86. Salicaria obsoleta, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 129; 

 Dresser, Ilns, 1876, p. 87. — The Desert Tree Warbler. 



The following is Mr. Seebohm's description of this species : — ^'' The 

 general colour of the upper parts is a sandy brown or pale isabelline 

 brown. In other respects the colouration is the same as that of the 

 two or three preceding sub-species ; 3rd and 4th primaries nearly 

 equal and longest; 2nd primary, in a skin from Turkistan inter- 

 mediate in length between the 6th and 7th, and in one from Sind 

 between the 7th and 8th ; the bastard primary exceeds the primary 

 coverts by 0*35 inch in both skins. 



Length. — Of wing 2*4 inches, tail 2'0, culmen in the Turkistan skin 

 0"61, in the Sind skin 0*8, darkish brown.^^ The colour of the soft parts 

 are not given. This has been included on Mr. Seebohm's authority, 

 who says he has a skin from Sind, as well as fi*om Turkistan. 



