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Crown of the head and back, also upper tail coverts, dark slaty grey ; lores 

 and a streak above the eye buffy white , a dark spot in front of the eye ; ear 

 coverts and cheeks light tawny buff, slaty grey along the upper margin of the 

 former ; rump with a few tawny buff feathers on each side ; lesser and median 

 coverts like the back ; greater coverts dusky brown, externally edged with light 

 brown ; tail feathers light brown, with a subterminal broad bar of black and 

 tipped white ; throat whitish, slightly washed with fulvous ; lower throat, 

 foreneck, chest, breast, sides of the body, flanks, thighs and under tail coverts 

 tawny buff, paler on the latter ; abdomen white ; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries light tawny buff, upper mandible black ; lower, pale horny ; legs dull 

 yellowish brown ; iris brown. 



Length. 4-6 to 5 inches; wing r8 ; tail r8 ; tarsus O'8. 



The young bird is rufous brown above, a little more dusky on the head; 

 rump and upper tail coverts brighter rufous ; tail rufous brown, tipped with 

 fulvous white, and with a subterminal black bar ; an ochraceous superciliary 

 streak present. 



Hab. Nepaul to Assam, Northern, Southern, Central and Western India 

 generally. Recorded from north of the Godavery, the N. W. Provinces, at 

 Agra, Cashmere, Punjab, the Deccan, Concan, Kaltiawar, Saugor, the 

 Neilgherries, Khandeish, and Dehra Doon. 



Its habits are those of Burnesia flaviventris, except that, unlike flaviventris, 

 it also frequents gardens, hedges, and vegetable crops. Eggs usually reddish 

 white or brick red, with numerous darker red spots at the large end. Nest 

 similar to that of P. flaviventris. 



344. Burnesia lepida (Biyth), Jerdon, B. Ind. \\. p. 185, No. 550. 



Prinia lepida, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p 376. Drymoica lepida, Blyth, 

 y . A. S. B. xvi. p. 460. Burnesia gracilis (Non. Rupp}, Hume, Nests and 

 Eggs, Ind. B. p. 356 ; id., Sir. F. 1873, p. 195 ; Adam, t. c. p. 382; Butler, 

 Str. F. 1875, p. 485 ; Hume, t. c. p. 485 ; id. Str. F. 1878, p. 58 ; id., Sir. 

 F. 1879, p. 102 ; Doig, t. c. p. 371 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc., Sind, p. 158 ; 

 id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 154. Burnesia lepida, A. Anderson, Ibis., 1872, p. 237. 

 Brooks, Str. F. 1879 p. 47 6 J l88o > P- 228 '> Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 211. Drymoeca gracilis, Blanf., East Pers. ii. p. 206. Drymoipus lepidus 

 Brooks, Str. F. 1876, p. 274. The STREAKED WREN- WARBLER. 



Head, back, scapulars and upper tail coverts light olive grey, each feather 

 mesially streaked with dusky brown ; quills dusky brown, the feathers margined 

 on their outer webs with the colour of the back ; lores and supercilium whitish ; 

 tail olive grey, the feathers with distinct but obsolete transverse dusky bars, a 

 subterminal dark spot on the inner web of each feather and tipped white ; chin, 

 throat, breast, belly and vent greyish white: bill dusky brown; the lower 

 mandible pale fleshy ; irides yellowish brown. 



