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biiffish brown than appears to be the case after the spring moult ; otherwise, 

 I can discover no differences attributable to age, sex, or season, beyond the 

 usual wear and tear of abrasion. 



/fab.- Sind, Beloochistan, S. E. Persia, Afghanistan, East Turkestan, 

 Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Cashmere, Kutch, Kattiawar, N. Guzerat, 

 Jodhpore, Concan, Deccan and South India. 



305. HypOlaiS caligata, (Lie/if.) Evenm. Reis. Buchara, p. 128 ; 

 Degle et Gerbe. Orn. Eur. i. p. 510; Dresser, B.Eur.^i. xxxviii. 1875; 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 88 ; Murray, ~H.dbk.ZooL, fyc., Sind, p. 160; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 86. Phyllopneuste rama, (Sykes) apud. Jerd. B. 

 Ind. vol. ii. p. 189 (partim). Jerdonia agricolensis, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 182. 

 Calamodyta agricolensis (Hume) Tristram, Ibis, 1870, p. 494. Salicaria 

 microptera, Severtz., Str. F. iii. p. 425 ; id. vii. p. 397 ; Murray, Vert. Zool., 

 Sind, p. 158. The BOOTED TREE-WARBLER. 



Male. Head, hindneck, back, scapulars, ear coverts and sides of the neck 

 a greyish brown ; supercilium, extending from the base of the bill to the ear 

 coverts, whitish buff ; rump and upper tail coverts brownish, the feathers of 

 the rump tinged very slightly with a shade of rufescent; w r ings concolorous 

 with the tail ; their coverts, as well as the primaries, secondaries and tertiaries, 

 margined with rufescent brown, in some specimens greyish white, more 

 broadly on the tertiaries and wing coverts ; edge of wing and under wing and 

 thigh coverts pale buffish white ; tail brown, the feathers narrowly margined 

 with fulvescent in some specimens ; the outer web of the outermost feather 

 on each side indistinctly fulvous white, the others, except the centre feathers, 

 tipped greyish white or fulvous ; under surface pale buffy white, albescent 

 on the chin, belly and lower tail coverts, and tinged brownish on the flanks ; 

 bill dark brown ; the lower mandible pale fleshy, dusky near the tip; legs and 

 feet fleshy or pale brownish yellow ; irides brown. 



Length. 4-5 to $ inches; wing 2-2 to 2-38; tail from vent 1-95 to 2 ; bill 

 at front 0*35 ; tarsus o'S. 



Hab. India to Ncpaul and Cashmere, Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, 

 Deccan, Concan, Khandesh, Behar and Madras ; wintering in the plains of 

 India and breeding in Cashmere, Turkestan and Southern Siberia. 



306. HypOlaiS ObSOleta, (Severtz.) Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. 

 v. p. 86. Salicaria obsoleta, Severtz. Turhest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 129; Dr 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 87; Murray, Vert, Zool., Sind, p. 158. The DESERT TREE- 

 WARBLER. 



The following is Mr. Seebohm's description of this species: *' The geneidl 

 colour of the upper parts is a sandy brown or pale isabelline brown. In other 

 respects the colouration is thr same as that of the two or three preceding sub- 

 species i 3rd and 4th primaries n-.uK C.J.M! arvl loo iu 



