LUC1NIOLA. 265 



the whole upper surface is dull earthy brown, with, in some, a faintly olivaceous 

 rufescent tinge on the back, most conspicuous on the rump ; the quill- 

 tail are a moderately dark hair brown, narrowly margined on the outer v 

 with pale olivaceous brown, much the same colour as the upper parts ; the 

 secondaries are very narrowly margined at the tips with albescent;' the 

 whole lower surface is albescent, tinged with very pale fulvous fawn, or earthy 

 brown, more strongly so in some specimens than in others j the sides and 

 flanks are pale earthy brown ; the wing lining and axillaries are white with, at 

 times, the faintest possible fulvous or brownish tinge. 



" Length. 4 to 4-2 inches ; expanse 6-25 to 6*4 ; tail from vent 1-4 to 1*6 ; 

 wing barely 2 to 2-15 ; bill at front 0^27 to 0-3 ; tarsus o'68 to 0-71. The 4th 

 primary the longest, the 3rd and 5th a hair's breadth shorter, the 2nd 0*26 to 

 0-3, and the ist I to ri shorter than the 4th ; the irides are brown ; the legs 

 and feet black ; the bill black, paler or horny greenish in some at the base of 

 the lower mandible." Str. F. i. p. 196. 



Hab Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Beloochistan, and Persia. A winter 

 visitant ; chiefly affecting acacia groves. 



323. Lusciniola melanopogon, (Tern.) Gray. List. Gen. B. 

 p. 28 ; Heuglin, Orn. N. D. Afr. Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 1 1 6 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1873, p. 190; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 132 ; Murray, Vert. 

 Zool., Sind, p. 149. Sylvia melanopogon, (Tern.) pi. Col. 245, fig. 2. 

 Calamodus melanopogon, (Teni). Blanf. E. Persia ii. p. 198. The Mous- 

 TACHED GRASS-WARBLER. 



A broad conspicuous white stripe from the nostrils over the eyes and ear 

 coverts ; a dark brown stripe from in front of, under, and through the eyes, 

 enveloping the upper portion of the ear coverts, darker in the males than in 

 the females ; the chin, throat, and lower parts, including the lower tail coverts, 

 white, faintly tinged rufescent on the breast, more strongly so on the flanks, 

 about the vent, and in some specimens the lower tail coverts also ; the sides 

 both of the neck and of the body tinged with greyish or, in some, olivaceous 

 brown ; forehead, crown, occiput, and nape very dark brown, the feathers 

 tipped and margined a paler yellowish olive brown ; in some specimens these 

 tippings entirely obscure the base, except on a narrow line immediately above 

 the white eye streak ; in others these parts appear to be very dark brown 

 regularly striated with a pale olive brown, while in some the tippings are almost 

 wanting ; the back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail coverts, the same yellowish 

 olive brown, becoming more rufescent on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts ; the feathers of the centre of back with more or less conspicu- 

 ous dark central shaft-streaks ; in some birds the whole back seems regularly 

 streaked with dark lines, in others only a few faint darker streaks are visible 

 in the very centre of the back ; in some again the lower back is much more 

 decidedly rufous ; the wings arc hair brown ; the primaries very narrowly 



