262 TURDID^. 



tail coverts, which latter are broadly tipped with whitish ; throat spotted with 

 dark brown ; bill dark brown ; 2nd primary equal to the 9th or loth, the 

 first, half the length of the 2nd ; legs, feet, and claws pale horn colour ; 

 axillaries greyish white. 



Length- 4-95 inches; wing 2 to 2*3; tail i8 to 2'5 ; culmen 0-52; tarsus 

 078 to 0'83. 



Hodgson's Grass-Warbler is said to breed in South Siberia and N.-W. China. 

 It is known only from N.-W. India, in the Himalayas, and between Simla 

 and Mussoorie. It is also recorded from Nepaul. 



317, LuSCiniola luteiventriS, (Hodgs.) Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mtis. 

 v. p. 125. Tribura luteoventris, Hodgs* M. S. Drawings Nepaul Birds* 

 Dumeticola mandelli, Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 286. Dumeticola luteoventris, 

 (Hodgs) Brooks, Str. F. 1875, P 2 ^6. The BROWN GRASS-WARBLER. 



Upper parts russet brown, inclining to olive ; lores and behind the eye 

 dark brown ; eye stripe pale chestnut, very indistinct ; wings and tail slightly 

 darker than the back ; chin, throat, and centre of abdomen nearly white, 

 shading into pale chestnut on the breast, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts ; 

 axillaries and under wing coverts buffish white, mottled with brown on the 

 shoulder ; inner margin of quills pale brown ;. upper mandible dark brown, 

 under mandible pale horn colour ; wing short ; 2nd primary equal to- the 

 secondaries ; legs, feet, and claws pale brown. (Seebohm.) 



Length. 4*9 to 5-5 inches; wing 1-95 to 2*25; tail 2*2 to 2*6; culmen 

 0*5 ; tarsus 0*7 to 0-8. 



Brooks under Dumeticola mandelli (Str. F. 1875, p. 284,) gives the measure- 

 ments of two skins of this species as 5*4 and 5-5 inches, both from Native 

 Sikkim. Under Tribura luteoventris (t. c.) from the same locality and the 

 Bhootan Doars, he gives the length as 5-10 to 5-25 ; wing 1-97 to 2-23. 



The Brown Grass-Warbler is confined to the Himalayas, having hitherto only 

 been found in Nepaul, the N.-W. Provinces, and Sikkim. It is recorded by 

 Seebohm from Darjeeling. 



318. LuSCiniola indica, (Jerd.) Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 277 ; id. 

 Cat. B. Br. Mm. v. p. 126. Sylvia indica, Jerd., Madr. Journ. xi. p. 6. 

 Phyllopneuste indicus, (Jerd?) Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 194; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 56; Godw.-Austen J. A. S. B. xli. pt. 2, p. 142; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 87. JERDON'S GRASS-WARBLER. 



Upper parts earthy brown with a slight tinge of ochraceous on the rump ; 

 eye stripe deep yellow, shading into buffy from behind the eye ; lores and 

 feathers behind the eye earthy brown ; quills brown, very narrowly tipped with 

 pale ; tail brown, the feathers narrowly tipped and margined with greyish 

 white on the inner web ; under surface of body buffish yellow ; axillaries and 

 wing coverts buff ; bill Phylloscopine ; upper mandible dark brown, the under 

 mandible pale horn colour ; legs, feet, and claws brown ; irides dark brown. 



