288 TURDID/E. 



nder surface bright yellow, including the thighs and under wing and under 

 Jail coverts ; wings brown, edged with yellowish green ; tail brown, narrowly 

 edged with yellowish green, the outermost feather white along the entire inner 

 web and the penultimate one for the greater part of its extent ; legs and 

 feet yellowish fleshy ; upper mandible, tip and edges of lower mandible along 

 commissure black ; rest of bill yellowish fleshy; irides brown. 



Length. 4 to 4-5 inches; wing r8 to 1-9; tail VI to 1:8; tarsus 075 to 

 O'8 ; culmen 0*6. 



Hab. Eastern flimalayas. Common east of Tovmghpo in British Burmah, 

 also on the higher slopes of the Mooleyit in Tenasserim, It occurs in Dar- 

 jeeling and in Nepaul, and in the hills of North Cachar and hill tracts of 

 E. Bengal. 



In habits it does not differ from tjie Indian Tailor Bird. Mr. Davison 

 observes that they are not easily overlooked, as on the approach of danger 

 {hey utter a low buzzing note of alarm. 



Gen. Graminicola. Jerd. 



Bill moderate, rather stout and compressed ; culmen curved ; four rictal 

 bristles on each side curving outwards ; wings short and rounded ; tail of 12 

 feathers, much graduated and broad ; tarsi stout, of moderate length. 



350. Graminicola bengalensis, Jerdon, B. ind. \\. p. 177; 



Godw.-Austen^ J . A. S. B. xliii. p. 167 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 101 ; id., 

 1880, p. 255. Drymoeca bengalensis, Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 345 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 234. The LARGE GRASS- WARBLER. 



Crown of tfae head, occiput and nape black, dark or tawny brown, the feathers 

 being with tawny or fulvous margins \ hindneck much paler, the edges being 

 buffy whitish ; lores and eyebrow white, narrowly streaked with black ; ear 

 coverts and cheeks whitish ; back also streaked, black, and tawny, the latter 

 forming broad margins to the feathers ; r.ump uniform tawny buff ; the lesser, 

 median and greater wing coverts tawny buff, streaked with blackish mesially ; 

 bastard wing and primary covert? dusky brown, edged with tawny ; quills the 

 same ; upper tail coverts streaked black in the centre and edged with tawny 

 rufous; tail blackish, the feathers washed with ashy olive on the margins, 

 which gradually change to tawny on the v extreme edge ; under surface of 

 body dull white, purer white on the abdomen ; sides of the body, flanks, 

 thighs and under tail coverts tawny buff, the sides of the breast with narrow 

 black shaft lines ; under wing coverts and axillaries pale tawny ; bill reddish 

 horny ; tarsus fleshy yellow ; iris yellow brown. 



Length. 5-8 to 6*2.5 inches ; wing 2*25 ; tail 3; culmen 0*5 ; tarsus O'9.. 

 Hab. Eastern Bengal, extending into Assam. Affects high grass 



