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Melizopliilus striatus, Brooks, Ibis, 1872, p. 180 ; Hume, S. F. i, 

 p. 200 ; Blanford, Ibis, 1874, p. 76. 



Scotocerca iuquieta (Rupp.), Hume, N. fy E. p. 357 ; Blanf. East. 

 Pers. ii, p. 207, pi. xiii, fig. 2 ; Hume, Cat. no. 550 bis ; 'Barnes, 

 S. F. ix, pp. 217, 455 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 213 ; Barnes, 

 I finis Bom. p. 222 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 276. 



Coloration. Upper plumage greyish brown ; the forehead, crown, 

 nape, and hind neck streaked with brown; wings brown, edged 

 with greyish brown ; tail very dark brown, nearly black, the outer 

 feathers narrowly tipped with white ; a long supercilium from the 

 nostrils to the nape, the ear-coverts and cheeks pinkish fulvous ; 

 lores and behind the eye blackish ; lower plumage whitish, the 

 throat and breast striated with brown, and the sides of the neck 

 and body suffused with pinkish fulvous. 



Legs and feet pale yellow, dusky on joints and claws ; bill dark 

 brown, paler on the lower mandible (Hume). 



Length rather more than 4-5 ; tail 2-1 ; wing 2 ; tarsus '7 ; bill 

 from gape '5. 



Distribution. A resident in the bare stony hills which run, in 

 various broken ranges, from the Khyber Pass to the sea, on the 

 west of the Indus river. The species extends westwards to 

 Arabia. 



Habits, $c. Constructs a globular nest made of fibres and coarse 

 grasses, lined with finer grasses and feathers, in a bush near the 

 ground. The breeding- season appears to be from February to 

 April. The eggs, usually six in number, are white, spotted and 

 speckled with light red, and measure -62 by -43. 



Genus NEORNIS, Hodgs., 1845. 



The genus 'Neornis, as restricted, contains but one species, 

 resembling Horornis in structure and Acanthopneuste in coloration. 

 From the latter it may be recognized by its tail of ten feathers, 

 and from the former by the hairs overhanging the nostrils. 



Neornis inhabits bushes and grass, and is, generally speaking, a 

 mountain-bird. Like the majority of the Horornis-group, it lays 

 deep red eggs. 



446. Neornis flavolivaceus. The Aberrant Warbler. 



Neornis flavolivacea, Hodgs., Btyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 590 (1845) 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 144 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 324 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 188 

 Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt, ii, p. 46 ; Hume, S. F. \, p. 494 ; 

 Brooks, J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 246 ; Hume, Cat. no. 552 ; id. 

 S. F. xi, p. 216 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 277. 



Neornis cacharensis, Hodys., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 590 (1845). 



Cettia flavolivacea (Hodys.), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 138. 



The Aberrant Tree- Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. Upper plumage dull green; wings and tail dark 

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