CISTICOLA. _><,] 



Franklin's Wren- Warbler affects brushwood and the outskirts <.i tree forests 

 where there is a plentiful undergrowth of grass. In such localities it is abim- 

 dant. It breeds throughout the rains, making a nest very like that of the 

 Tailor Bird hut smaller, sewing the leaves together with cotton, and with the 

 same material, wool and soft vegetable fibres lining the nest. The eggs, 

 3 to 4 in number, are pale blue with some brown or reddish spots. 



353. CisticOla beavani, ( Wald.) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mas. vii. 

 p. 255. Prinia Beavani, Wald. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 551 ; Bcavan, Ibis. 1867, 

 p. 454 ; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 136 ;' Oates, Str. P. v. p. ^8 ; Hume and Dav., 

 Str. F. vi. p. 349. Hume, Sir. F. viii, p. lOi ; Oatcs, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 

 120. Prinia rufcscens, Blyth,J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 4^6; Blyth and Wald., 

 B. Burm. p. 119; Plume, Str. F. iii. p. 1 36 ; Anderson, Yunnan Exped. p. 640 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 101. BEAVAN'S GRASS-WARBLER. 



Above brown with tuffs 1 of fulvous white' feathers on eafch side of the rump 

 and indications of dusky cross bars on the lower back and rump ; fesser and 

 median wing coverts like the back ; bastard wing and primary coverts dusky 

 brown, with narrow rufous edgings ; quills and tail the same, all, except the 

 centre feathers of the tail, with a subterminal spot of black and a white tip ; 

 crown, occiput and nape slaty grey; lores white, also a small but distinct 

 streak over the eye ; ear coverts slaty grey with pale shaft lines ; cheeks, throat 

 and foreneck white, tinged rather with fulvous ; breast fulvous, also' the sides 

 of the body and flanks ;' under tail coverts huffish white ; under wing coverts 

 and axillaries light tawny buff. (Sharpte.) Bill blaxrk ; legs and feet pale or 

 dark pinkish fleshy ; irides orange brown, light wood brown, or redcn'Sh' yellow 

 (\V. Davison.) 



Length. 3-8 to 4 inches; wing r8' ; tail 1-65 to 1*5 ; tarsus 0-7 to 075 ; 

 bill from gape c'6. In winter the length is 4*6, the' tail 2*1. The head and 

 upper surface of the body is reddish brown ; the tail more rufous ; the under 

 surface of the body yellower ; and the eye brown, distinct in some skins. 



Hab. From Nepaul through the' Eastern Himalayas and the Burmese 

 countries as far as Malacca. It has been recorded from Bhamo, Pegu, 

 Tenasserim, the Arrakan Hilts, Nepaul, the Bhootan Doars, and Sikkim. 



Abundant in grassy situations on the outskirts of wooded forests. Breeds 

 in Burmah. Nest and eggs are similar to those of the preceding speeies. 



354. Cisticola ciriereicapilla, (Moore) Sharpe, Cat. B. r. Mus. 



vii. p. 256. Prinia cinereicapilla, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 77 (ex. Hodgs. 

 AfSS.) Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 172, No. 537; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Indian 

 Birds, p. 341 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1^75, p. 242; A. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 370 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 320 ; id. 1879, P- IO1 '> id - l8So > P 286. The 

 GREY-HEADED OR HODGSON'S WREN-WARBLER. 



Crown of 'the head bluish grey ; occiput and nape, also the back and \ving 

 coverts, reddish brown ; a line across the forehead, extending back in a narrow 



