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rate ; bastard primary extending beyond or shorter than the 
primary coverts ; third and fourth quills longest ; tail even or 
rounded. 
Hypolais rama, Sykes, 
553.—Phyllopneuste rama, Sykes.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
II, p. 189; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 486 ; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 407; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 157; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 
SYKES’ TREE WARBLER. 
Length, 5 ; expanse, 7°5 ; wing, 2°5; tail, 2; tarsus, 0°75 ; bill 
at front, O-4. 
Bill dusky, fleshy at base below; irides dark-brown ; legs 
light brown. 
Above, uniform light greyish-brown ; below pale or albescent, 
passing into white on the chin, middle of belly, and vent ; lores 
continued as a slight streak passing over the eye, and the orbital 
feathers pale. 
Sykes’ Tree Warbler occurs more or less commonly in all parts 
of the Presidency. In Sind it is a permanent resident, breeding 
from March to July. The nest is placedin the centre of a dense 
stunted tamarisk or other bush, and is composed externally of 
coarse grass, lined with soft sedges and finer grass. The eggs, four 
in number, are broadish ovals, white, with brown spots and_hair- 
like lines twined around the large end. They average 0°61 inches 
in length by 0°49 in breadth. 
Hypolais caligata, Hversm. 
553bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 158 ; Butler, 
Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 407. 
THE BooTteD TREE WARBLER. 
Length, 4°5 to 5; expanse, 6°5 to 7; wing, 2°22 to 2°32 ; tail, 
1:9 to 2:1; tarsus, 0°8; bill at front, 0°35 to 0°39; bill from gape 
0°55 to 0°62. 
Bill, upper mandible dark-brown, with the edges light; lower 
mandible flesh-colored, rather dusky towards the tip; irides 
hazel-brown ; legs and feet fleshy-grey, in some tinged yellowish, 
expecially on the soles, in some glaucous. 
Feathers of the head, nape, back, and scapulars, lax hair-brown, 
tinged towards the margins with a paler, slightly rufous or 
fulvous-brown (the whole in some specimens with a faint shade of 
olive); rump paler and rather more rufous in tone; upper 
tail-coverts hair-brown, with lighter fulvous-brown edges; tail 
dark-brown, all but the two outermost rectrices very narrow- 
ly margined with pale fulvous or greyish-white ; outermost 
feather on each side, with the whole of the outer web, dull or 
greyish-white ; tips and internal margin also greyish-white ; rec- 
