268 TURDID^. 



Hob. The Himalayas from Cashmere to Assam, Sikkim, Eastern Bengal, 

 Western China, Burmah and the Island of Formosa. Recorded from Nepaiil, 

 Darjeeling, Kashgar and British Burmah. It has been procured in Karin 

 by Captain Wardlaw-Ramsay, and by Dr. Anderson in the hills east of Bhamo. 

 Colonel Godwin-Austen got it in the hill tracts of Eastern Bengal. Seebohm 

 says " in all localities it is doubtless a partial migrant, breeding at high eleva- 

 tions above the level of winter snow, and descending lower into the valleys 

 during the cold season. 



326. Cettia flavolivacea, (Hodgs.) Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 36; id. 



Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 138. Neornis flavolivacea, Hodgs., MS. Drawings 

 B. Nepaul, pi. 6 1 fig. i ; Jer$. B. Ind. ii. p. 188, No. 552. Neornis 

 cacharensis, (Hodgs.) Gray, Cat. Mam. & J5. Nepaul, p. 67. The HIMALAYAN 

 BUSH-WARBLER. 



Upper parts dark brownish green, paler on the rump ; lores and feathers 

 behind the eye brown ; supercilium rather indistinct, buffish yellow ; wings and 

 tail brown, the outer webs of the feathers edged with brownish green. Chin, 

 throat and centre of abdomen deep yellow, with a brownish tinge on the breast, 

 flanks, thighs and under tail coverts ; axillaries and under wing coverts bright 

 yellow ; inner margins of quills nearly white ; bill dark brown, paler at base 

 of lower mandible ; 4th, 5th and 6th primaries nearly equal and longest ; legs 

 and feet brown. 



Length. 4*5 inches; wing 1*9 to 2-15; tail 1*9 to 2'2; culmen 0*51 to 

 0*48 ; tarsus 0*9. 



Hab. The Himalayas from Nepaul to Assam. Breeds at high altitudes. 



327. Cettia pallidipes, (Blanf.) Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, P- 36; id. 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 139. Phylloscopus pallidipes, Blanf., J . A. S. B. xli., 

 pt. ii. p. 162; pi. vii. (1872). Horeites sericea, Walden, ~Blyth, Wald. in 

 B. Burm. p. 119; Tweed., Ibis, 1877, p. 487; Hume, Str. F. v. p. 57. 

 Horeites pallidipes, Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 344 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. 

 p. loi ; Oates, B. Br. Burm., i. p. 122. BLANFORD'S HILL WARBLER. 



Upper plumage, tail, and wings olive brown ; a broad supercilium greyish 

 white ; lores and feathers behind the eye olive brown ; ear coverts greyish 

 white ; under surface white, very slightly tinged with brownish on the breast, 

 flanks, and under tail coverts; axillaries and under wing coverts white. 

 Bill Phylloscopine, yellow, the under mandible pale brown ; 4th, 5th, and 6th 

 primaries nearly equal and longest; 2nd shorter than the secondaries ; ist 

 more than half the length of the second ; iris dull brown ; legs fleshy white. 



Length. 4. inches; tail 17; wing 2-05 to 2'2; bill from gape 0-55. 



Hab. Sikkim and Assam, also Tenasserim. Gates says, " Blanford's Hill- 

 Warbler was procured at Pahpoon in Tenasserim by Mr. Davison, and on the 



