266 TURDID^E. 



margined and tipped on the outer web paler ; the secondaries and tertiaries 

 and most of the coverts more distinctly margined with a sort of rufescent 

 olive, the wing lining and axillaries pure or nearly pure white ; tail feathers 

 somewhat pale hair brown, obscurely margined with rufescent olive ; the 

 shaft dull white below. " The plumage," Mr. Hume says, " is rather variable, 

 and in some specimens the flanks and tail coverts are much browner than 

 above described the upper surface, too, varies a good deal in its general 

 appearance * * * ; all the quills are margined on their inner webs 

 albescent." 



Dimensions from the fresh bird sexes not differing appreciably in size. 



Length. 57 to 5-8 inches ; expanse 7-3 to 7-5 ; tail from vent 2 to 2-2 ; wing 

 2'4 to 2-5 ; wing, when closed, reach to within 1-25 to 1-4 of end of tail ; bill 

 at front 0*42 to 0*47 ; tarsus 0-82 to 0-87 ; hind toe and claw 0-55, claw only 

 from root to point 0*3 ; weight 0^35 to 0*4 oz. ; irides brown to pale brown ; 

 feet dark horny grey, in some dusky brown ; legs dusky brown ; soles pale 

 yellowish ; bill very dark brown, almost black, paler on lower mandible. 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. i., p. 191. 



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

 tan. A winter visitant. 



Seebohm says it appears to be a resident on both shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean, extending eastwards into Persia. In Sind and the N.-W. Provinces 

 it is only a winter visitor. Probably breeds in Turkestan. 



Gen. Cettia. Bonap. 



This genus contains a small group of Bush-Warblers, distinguished by 

 having only ten tail feathers. The wing is generally rounded ; the 1st primary 

 always half the length of the 2nd or a little more ; the 2nd is nearly 

 equal to the secondaries ; tail rounded, the outermost feathers two-thirds to 

 five-sixths the length of the longest ; tarsus and feet robust, the former 

 scutellated in front. The predominant colours are russet brown and olive 

 brown. (Seebohm.) 



324. Cettia cetti, (Marm)Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 518; Murray, Vert. 

 Zool., Sind, p. 151; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 135. Sylvia cetti, 

 Marm. Mem. Ace. Tor. xxx. p. 254; Tern. Man. d' Orn. i. p. 194. Bradyp- 

 terus cetti, (Marm.) Cat. Mus. Hein. i. p. 43; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 89; 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 89. Cettia orientalis, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 79. 

 Cettia stolickza, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 520. Cettia cettioides, Hume, Sir. F. 

 \. p. 194. Bradyptetes cetti, (Marm.) Blanf. East Persia ii. p. 200. CETTI'S 

 BUSH-WARBLER. 



" A spot in front of the eyes dusky ; a streak from the nostrils over the eye 

 and a circle round the eye fulvous white ; the forehead, crown, and whole 

 upper surface a warm rufous or ferruginous brown, more rufous on the rump 



