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rufous-brown; under parts silky-white, tinged with yellowish- 
fulvous on the flanks, and faintly on the sides of the neck; 
tail brown, albescent-greyish beneath, with a subterminal dark 
band and whitish tips, most conspicuous on the under sur- 
face. 
Franklin’s Wren Warbler is a common permanent resident all 
along the Sahyadri Range and in the forests adjoining; it also 
occurs sparingly on Mount Aboo, and is not uncommon on the 
Vindhian hills near Mhow. It does not occur in the Sind 
District. 
Prinia hodgsoni, Blyth. 
538.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 173; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 480; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 406. 
-THE MALABAR WREN WARBLER. 
Length, 4; wing, 1°8; tail, 1°87; tarsus, 0°7 ; bill at front, 0-4. 
Bill black ; irides buff; legs yellow. 
Above dark ashy-grey, brownish on the wings and tail, the 
latter with a subterminal dark band, tipped white on the outer 
feathers; beneath white, slightly tinged with fulvescent, greyish 
on the edge of the neck and breast. 
The Malabar Wren Warbler is only doubtfully distinct from 
P. gracilis; it is thought to be the latter in breeding plumage. 
If distinct 1t occurs in precisely the same. localities. 
Genus, Cisticola, Lesson. 
Bill rather short, slender, gently curving from the middle, 
entire at tip; wings short, ample ; first quill small, third, fourth and 
fifth equal and longest, second equal to seventh, shorter than the 
sixth ; tail of twelve feathers, somewhat rounded, short; tarsus 
long; feet rather large with the lateral toes nearly equal and the 
hind-toe long; the claws lengthened, especially the hind one 
only slightly curved. 
Cisticola cursitans, Frankl. 
539.—Cisticola scheenicola, Bonaparte.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. II, p. 174; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, 
p- 481; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 407; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 152. 
THE Rurous Grass WARBLER. 
Length, 4°5; wing, 2°12; tail, 1-86 ; tarsus, 0°75. 
Bill dusky-brown above, fleshy beneath; irides pale olive- 
brown. 
Above rufous-brown, all the feathers broadly centred dark- 
brown; rump plain rufous; quills dusky, narrowly edged with 
brown ; tail with the two central feathers pale brown, darker 
in the middle, and pale tipped; the others all dark-brown, deeper 
