SYLVIA. 



393. Sylvia cinerea. The White-throated Warbler. 



Sylvia cinerea, BecJmt..Orn. Taschenb. i, p. 170 (1802) ; Hume, & F. 



' iii, p. 488 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 8. 



Sylvia nifa (Bodd.), Hume, Cat. no. 582 quat. ; Barnes. Birds Bom. 

 "> 233. 



Coloration. After the autumn moult the whole upper plumage is 

 russet -brown, the margins of the quills and covetrs more rufous, 

 approaching chestnut on the tertiaries and greater coverts ; tail 

 brown, edged with russet, and the outermost feathers whity brown; 

 lores grey ; sides of the forehead mixed russet and grey ; chin, 

 throa% and middle of abdomen whitish ; the remainder of the lower 

 plumage pale buff. In summer both sexes have the upper plumage 

 greyish brown, and the male has the breast suffused with vinous. 



Legs and feet yellowish brown ; bill dusky above, fleshy at base 

 of lower mandible ; iris yellowish brown (Butler} ; bill dark hornv, 

 whitish at base below; iris brown (Hume). 



Length about 6 ; tail 2-5 ; wing 2-9 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 

 gape *6. Second primary equal to fourth; first primary very 

 minute. 



Distribution. This is a very rare species in India, and the 

 specimens I have seen have been killed, without exception, in 

 September. It is therefore impossible to say whether this is 

 a winter or a summer visitor, or whether it merely passes through 

 on migration. It has occurred at Grilgit and Astor, in Lower 

 Sind, on Mount Abu, and at Deesa. Hume gives it from Jodhpore 

 and Pali. 



It breeds throughout Europe, and eastwards to Persia ; and it 

 winters in Africa. It is not unlikely, therefore, to be a summer 

 visitor to India, and to breed there. 



399. Sylvia jerdoni. The Eastern Orphean Warbler. 



Curruca jerdoni, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 439 (1847). 



Sylvia jerdoni (Blyth), Blyth, Cat. p. 187; Hume, Cat. no. 581; 



Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 16; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 232. 

 Sylvia orphea (Ternm.), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 208; Butler fy Hume, S. F. 

 'iii, p. 487. 



The Large Black-capped Warbler *, Jerd. ; Pedda nulla kampa-jitta, 

 Tel. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, lores, and sides 

 of the head black; upper plumage slaty grey ; wings brown, 

 edged with slaty grey ; tail black, the outermost feathers with the 

 outer web white and the inner with the terminal third white ; the 

 next two pairs white at the tip of the inner web; cheeks and 



* As this bird is not the Eastern representative of the Blackcap or Black- 

 capped Warbler of Europe, Jerdon's name seems to me inappropriate and 

 misleading. 



