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off into ochraceous on the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy white. 



Young birds hare the crown concolorous with the back and 

 the lower plumage uniform deep ochraceous-brown, in which 

 state they are Hodgson's H. pollicaris. 



Back and outsides of tarsi and toes dusky, insides and front 

 fleshy white ; claws white tinged dusky ; iris very dark brown ; 

 upper mandible dull black ; gape and lower mandible to angle of 

 the gonys fleshy yellow ; remainder of lower mandible dusky 

 brown (Hume). 



Length about 4'5 ; tail 1*8 ; wing 1'8 ; tarsus -7 ; bill from 

 gape -5. 



Distribution. The Himalayas at considerable altitudes, from the 

 Pir Panjal in Kashmir to Sikhim. 



Habits, fyc. Blanford observed this bird in Sikhim between 10,000 

 and 12,000 feet of elevation, and noticed that its habits were similar 

 to those of the Wrens ; it was seen hunting over mossy rocks and 

 diving into hollows between them. The nest does not appear to 

 be known, but the eggs are described as being stone-coloured, with 

 a broad dense zone of dull brownish purple at the large end ; they 

 measure -65 by '48. 



Genus CETTIA, Bonap., 1838. 



The genus Cettia contains one Indian species, which differs from 

 its European ally in characters sufficiently marked to constitute it 

 a distinct and easily recognizable species. 



It is probably only a winter visitor to Sind, but the evidence oil 

 this point is imperfect. It is at the best a bird of very limited 

 migration. It frequents reeds and swampy vegetation and is a 

 very great skulker. 



In this genus the bill is about half the length of the head, 

 slender and pointed ; the frontal feathers are short and smooth, 

 and there are no supplementary bristles or hairs in front of the 

 rictus. The wing is short and rounded. The tail is very mode- 

 rately graduated. 



456. Cettia orientalis. The Eastern Bush- Warbler. 



Cettia (Potamodus) orientalis, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 79. 



Cettia sericea (Natt.\ Hume. S. F. i, p. 192 (1873): Brooks. Ibis. 



1884, p. 237. 



Cettia cettioides, Hume, S. F. i, p. 194 (1873). 

 Cettia albiventris, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 131 (1873) ; id. 



S. F. iii, p. 424. 

 Cettia scalenura, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 131 (1873) ; id. 



S. F. iii, p. 424. 



Cettia stoliczkce, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 520 (1874), iii, p. 415 (1875). 

 Cettia cetti, apud Hume, S. F. iv, p. 41. 

 Bradyptetus cetti (Marrn.), Hume, Cat. no. 518 ter. 

 Cettia cetti (Marm.), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 135 (part.). 



