232 SYLVIINA. 
Genus, Sylvia, Latham. 
Bill moderate or slightly lengthened and slender, with the 
rictal bristles almost obsolete; wings lengthened and in some 
pointed ; first quill minute, second a little shorter than the 
third and fourth, which are about equal; secondaries broad ; 
tail slightly rounded; tarsus moderate or short, stout, and scu- 
tate; feet strong, short ; lateral toes unequal ; hind-toe moderate ; 
claws moderately curved. 
Sylvia jerdoni, Blyth. 
581.—Sylvia orphea, Tem.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p- 208; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 487; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 409; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 161; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 
THe LarceE BLACK-CAPPED WARBLER. 
Length, 7; expanse, 9:25; wing, 3:2; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 09; 
bill at front, 0°6. 
Bill blackish-horny, greyish at base beneath ; irides pale 
whitish-yellow ; legs greenish-grey. 
Above brownish-ashy, tolerably pure ashy on the nape and 
rump; cap, lores, and ear-coverts black in the male, dusky or 
blackish-grey in the female; beneath whitish, pure white on 
the throat and middle of the belly, tinged albescent on the 
breast ; tail blackish, the outer feathers externally white, for the 
basal two-thirds, and the next four successively less broadly tipped 
white ; quills dusky-brown with pale edgings. 
The Black-capped Warbler is a not uncommon cold weather 
visitant to all parts of the district. 
Sylvia affinis, Blyth. 
582.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 209; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 487; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 409 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 161; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 
THE ALLIED GREY WARBLER. 
Length, 6; wing, 2°65; tail, 2°25; tarsus, 0°75; bill at front, 0°45. 
Bill brown ; irides brownish-yellow ; legs brown. 
Head and neck cinereous; ears dusky ; the rest of the plumage 
above reddish cinereous; wing and tail brownish; outer tail 
feathers nearly all white, the others only tipped with white ; 
throat white ; rest of the plumage beneath white with a tinge of 
reddish. 
The Allied Grey Warbler is generally distributed throughout 
the district during the cold weather, 
Sylvia minuscula, Hume. 
532bis—Murray’s Vetebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 161, 
