272 



TURDID^E. 



Adult Male, Above olive brown, washed with ashy and streaked with dark 

 brown down the centre of the feathers, a little more ashy on the rump and 

 upper tail coverts, and also on the forehead and sides of crown ; wing coverts 

 like the back, ashy on the least series j bastard wing feathers dark brown, 

 externally like the back ; primary coverts dark brown, edged with olive ; quills 

 the same ; tail feathers brown, washed with olive on the outer web, the centre 

 of the feathers darker brown ; lores, feathers in front of the eye and eyelid 

 white j cheeks and under surface of body white, ashy on the sides of the 

 breast and flanks, the latter washed with brown, as also the thighs externally ; 

 under tail coverts yellowish white or pale fulvous ; axillaries and under wing 

 Qoverts white, with a dusky spot near the edge of the wing. 



Length. 6 inches; wing 2' I ; tail 3-15, tarsus 0'8 ; culmen 0*55. 

 * Bengal, Has not been recorded from any other part of India. 



Gen. 



Bill slender, compressed and of moderate length ; nostrils apert ; rictal 

 bristles few, strong, $rd quill longest ; 4th and 5th nearly equal to it ; tarsus 

 long, scutellated ; mid toe long. 



333. Megalurus palustris, Horsf., Trans., Lin. Sac, xiii, p. 159; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As.' Soc. p. 139 ; Jerd., B. Ind, ii. p. 70; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, p. 276; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 118: Wald., Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 189; 

 Oates, Sir. F. v. p. 156; J^joeed, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 694; Hume and Dav., 

 Sir. F. vi. p. 295 ; Anderson^ Yunnan Exp. p. 639 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. 

 p. 97; Gates, Str. F. x. p, 209; Sharp* , Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 123. 

 The STRIATED MARSH WARBLER. 



Upper surface fulvous brown, the head rather rufous, and each feather with 

 $ mesial dark brown shaft streak ; wing coverts and quills blackish brown, 

 Broadly edged with the colour of the back ; tail fulvous brown, the shafts and the 



