218 DRYMOICINA. 
towards the end, and with a broad whitish tip ; plumage beneath 
rufescent-white, nearly pure white on the chin and throat, 
and more rufescent on the flanks; tail beneath cinereous at 
the base, then pale rufous, with a black bar, and a broad white 
tip, in some uniform dusky-cinereous. 
The Rufous Grass Warbler is a common permanent resident 
in most portions of our limits, and breeds during the monsoon. 
It makes a long tubular nest, composed of soft white vegetable 
down, in the centre of a ¢lump of grass, a short distance only 
from the ground. The eggs, usually five in number, are oval 
in shape, white or greenish-white in color, thickly speckled with 
tiny spots of reddish-brown. These spots often show a tendency 
to form a zone around the larger end. 
They measure 0°58 in length by 0°46 in breadth. 
Genus, Drymoipus, Bonap. 
(Drymeca.) 
Bill short or of moderate length, nearly entire, rather deep at 
the base; culmen moderately curving; rictus bristled ; wings 
very short and rounded; the first three quills nearly equal, 
graduated, fourth and fifth longest ; tail graduated, long, of ten 
feathers, the feathers obtuse ; tarsus long; feet moderate; claws 
moderately curved. 
Drymoipus inornata, Sykes. 
(Drymeeca.) 
543.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 178; 543b¢s.—D. 
terricolor, Hume; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, 
p. 481; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 407; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 153; Prinia iwnornata, Sykes ; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 
THE COMMON WREN WARBLER. 
Length, 5 to 55; wing, 1°75 to 1:8; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 0°8, 
bill at front, 0-4. 
Bill dusky-brown above, yellowish or fleshy at the base beneath ; 
irides brownish-yellow ; legs fleshy-yellow. 
Head and back greyish-brown, with an olivaceous tinge on the 
head and hind-neck ; wings brown, edged pale rufous; tail rufous 
or brownish, with a terminal dark spot, and the centre tail- 
feathers obsoletely banded; a whitish supercilium and whitish 
lores and chin ; beneath whitish, with a faint fulvescent tinge; 
thighs pale fulvescent-brown. 
“It is now generally admitted by ornithologists that the birds 
described by Dr. Jerdon under Nos. 543 and 544, viz. D. 
inornata and D. longicaudatus are the same in different phases 
of plumage, the principal difference being the longer tail of 
the latter. 
The Common or Earth-brown Wren Warbler is a permanent 
