HOEO11N1S. 



b". Under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ochraceous brown like the lower plu- 

 mage v H. alliceHti'ix, p. 4.'ii>. 



//. Upper plumage tinged with olivaceous. 



r". Flanks and under tail-coverts fulvous. . H. pidlidus, p. 430. 

 d" . Hanks and under tail-coverts pale 



brown H. pallidipes, p. 437. 



b. Crown differently coloured from remainder 



of upper plumage. 

 c. Crown of head bright chestnut-brown; 



wing about 24 H. major, p. 438. 



d'. Crown of head merely tinged with rufous ; 



wing about 3 //. canturiens, p. 438. 



447. Horornis brunnescens. Hume's Bush- Warbler. 



Horeites brunnescens, Hume, Ibis, 1872, p. 109 ; id. S.F. iii, p. 410 



iv, p. 497 ; id. Cat. no. 527 ter. 



Horornis brunnescens {Hume), Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 380. 

 Cettia fortipes (Hodgs.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 136 (part.). 



Coloration. Upper plumage bright rufous-brown ; the edges of 

 the wings and tail brighter ; lores and behind the eye dark brown ; 

 i very distinct pale buff supereilium ; lower plumage pale buff, 

 turning to yellow on the lower part of the abdomen and the sides 

 of the body ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale yellow. 



In the dry skin the bill is dark brown, with the base of the 

 lower mandible pale; legs fleshy brown. 



Length about 4 ; tail 1'8 ; wing 2 ; tarsus '8 ; bill from gape '5. 



Among Hodgson's birds in the British Museum are three speci- 

 mens of this species, but bearing the same number as H. fortipes, 

 viz. 928. 



Distribution. Sikhim and probably Nepal. 



448. Horornis fortipes. The Strong-footed Bush- Warbler. 



Horornis fortipes, Hodgs. P. Z, S. 1845, p. 31 j Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 162 > 



Brooks. S. F. viii, p. 475, x, p. 170 ; Oates in Hume's N. & E- 



2nd ed. i, p. 279. 



Drymoica brevicaudata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 459 (1847). 

 Neornis (Horornis) assimilis, Gray, Cat. Matnm. etc. Nepal, ed. 2, 



p. 30 (1863). 

 Neornis assimilis (Hodgs.}, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 22 ; Gddw.-Aust. 



J.A.S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 167 ; Wald. in Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 105 ; 



Hume 8? Dav. S. F. vi, p. 351 ; Hume, Cat. no. 552 bis ; id. S. F. 



xi, p. 217. 



Dumeticola fortipes (Hodgs.}, Hume, N. $ E. p. 329. 

 Neornis flavolivacea (Hodgs.}, Hume, N. $ E. p. 360. 

 Neornis brevicaudatus (Blyth), Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aces, 



p. 623. 

 Schoenicola fortipes (Hodgs.), Hume, Cat. no. 526 ; id. S. F. xi. 



p. 206. 



< Vttia fortipes (Hodgs.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 1:J<5. 

 Hoieites fortipes (Hodgs.}, Oates, B. B. i, p. 121. 



The Strong-footed Hill- Warbler, Jerd. 



2*2 



