BURNESIA. 



neglecta, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 164; Ball, Sir. F. ii. p. 218, Drymoipus 

 validus, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 182. Drymoipus sylvaticus, Jtnl. t. c. p. i8r. 

 No. 545 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 351. Drymoipus jerdoni, 

 p. 1 80 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 437 ; 1874, p. 453. Drymceca valida, Blyth, 

 Ibis., 1867, p. 302 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 101 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 525. 

 Suya gangetica, Blyth, Ibis., 1867, p. 23 ; Hume* Sir. F. 1877, p. 138; 1878, 

 p. 6; 1879, p. 101. Drymoipus rufescens, Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. Ji. 

 p. 351 ; Butler, Str. F. 1875, p. 484 ; Hume, t. c. p. 484 ; Brooks, Sir. F. 

 1876, p. 229. Drymoipus insignis, Hume, Nests and JZggs, Ind. B. p. 351. 

 Drymceca rufescens, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 101. Drymoeca neglecta, Hume, 

 t. c. p. 10 1 ; Dav.and Wenden. t. c. p. 407 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 480. The 

 JUNGLE WREN-WARBLER. 



Breeding Plumage. Above dark brown, slightly paler on the lower back 

 and rump ; head and hindneck dusky ash brown ; lores dull white ; no super- 

 cilium present ; ear coverts dusky brown, with obscure yellowish shaft lines ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body yellowish white, the abdomen pure white ; 

 sides of breast ashy ; flanks fulvescent ; thighs tawny brown ; under tail 

 coverts pale yellowish white ; upper tail coverts and centre tail feathers pale 

 reddish brown, crossed with obscure dusky bars under certain lights ; the next 

 feathers brown along the outer web and white on the inner, shaded more or 

 less with pale sooty brown ; external tail feather almost entirely white ; lesser 

 and median wing coverts, also scapulars, dark brown with ashy margins ; greater 

 coverts margined with reddish brown, also the quills. In the winter plumage, 

 the tail feathers have no white on the inner web, but the external feathers 

 are tipped with white, and have a tolerably distinct subterminal black bar ; bill 

 brown black ; irides hazel ; legs and feet yellowish. 



Length. 6-3 to 6'5 inches; wing 2-55 to 2'6 ; tail 2*85 to 3-3 in winter 

 plumage ; tarsus O'9 ; culmen 0*55. 



Hab. The whole of India, south of the Himalayas, and Ceylon. Recorded 

 from the N. W. Provinces, Bengal, Assam, Concan, Deccan, Central and 

 Southern India, Malabar Coast, Travancore, Nepaul and Cashmere. 



Habits same as the last. Mr. Hume in his Nests and Eggs, Indian Btrd, 

 refers to the nidification of this species under all the synonyms quoted above. 

 Generally it may be said that the nest is a deep cup, made of grass, well woven 

 and neat, usually fixed in a thorny shrub, and lined with a little soft down. 

 Eggs, 2 to 4, pale blue, with large purplish brown blotches, or unmarked. 



Gen. Burnesia. Jerd. 



Bill longer and more slender than in Prinia. Culmen exceeding the length 

 of hind toe and claw ; rictal setae fine and minute, not reaching beyond nostrils ; 

 plumage streaked ; tail, of 10 feathers, strongly graduated. 



