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Sub-Family, SYLVIIN^,— Gre^ Warblers. 



Bill moderately slender, with few rictal bristles at base; nostrils in a 

 groove ; wings — first quill short, 2nd shorter than 3rd and 4th, which 

 are equal or sub-equal ; tarsi moderate, scutellate. 



Gen. Sylvia, LatJi.j Curruca, Koch. 



Characters same as those of the Sub-Familj. Outermost tail feathers 

 generally white. 



Sylvia jerdoni, Bhjfh, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 439; Blf. East. Persia., 

 u. p. 172; Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 197, ii. 330; Seehohm, Monog. B. Br. 

 Mus. p. 16. — The Eastern Orphean Warbler. 



Adult Male. — General colour slaty grey; head, lores, and feathers 

 behind the eye, ear-coverts and nape sooty black; primaries and 

 secondaries brown, their outer margins whitish ; the secondaries edged 

 at the tips with greyish white, as also some of the tertiaries; tail 

 darker brown than the wings, the outermost feathers white on the 

 outer web, and nearly one-half of the inner, the next two tipped 

 white; in some specimens the centre feathers are margined very 

 narrowly and tipped with fulvescent white ; chin and throat white ; 

 belly, flanks, vent and under tail-coverts greyish white, darker on the 

 under tail-coverts; bill dark brown; the base of the lower mandible 

 pale yellowish; legs and feet dusky brown ; irides hazel. 



Length. — 6' 75 to 7 inches, wing 3 to 3*25, tail 2"75. The Feynafe 

 differs from the male in having the brown of theheadless darker than the 

 back. 



ifaS.— Northern and Western India, Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, 

 Beloochistan, S. E. Persia, Afghanistan, Tui-kistan, Kutch, Kattiawar; 

 Jodhpore, Jeypore, North Guzerat, Mount Aboo and Deccan. Breeds 

 in Persia and Turkistan ; winters in Arabia and the plains of India. 



Sylvia afflnis, Bh/fh, Gat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 187; Hvme, Str. 

 F. vii. p. 60 ; i. 197; i'i. 332; iii. 272 ; Jerd. B. hid. ii. 209, No. 582; 

 Murray, Hdbk.., ZouL, ^t. Sind, p. 163. Sylvia curruca, a pud, Jerd. B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 209 ; apud. Blf. East. Persia, ii. p. 175. — The Allied Grey 

 Warbler, 



General colour pale slaty or brownish grey ; supercilium indistinct ; 

 wings and tail brownish ; outermost tail feather on each side white on 

 their outer webs; chin, throat, belly, and under tail-coverts, also 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white, tinged greyish brown on the 

 breast and flanks ; bill and legs brown ; irides light brown. 



Length. — 6 inches, wing 2"5, tail 2'25, bill at front 0"51. 



Hah. — Nearly all India and Ceylon, Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, 

 Behar, Deccan, Kutch, Guzerat, Kattiawar, Jodhpore and Sambhur ; also 

 Beloochistan, Persia, S. Afghanistan and Turkistan. 



Sylvia minuscula, Hume, Str. F. i. 198; vii. 58 et seq.-, viii. 

 103, 388, 498 ; Seebohm,Cat. B.Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 20, pi. 1.— Hume's 

 Lesser White-Throat. 



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