442 SYLYIID.*:. 



Coloration. Upper plumage reddish brown ; wings and tail 

 edged with the same; a short supercilium and round the eye 

 fulvous white ; lores dusky ; chin, throat, breast, and abdomen 

 white ; remainder of the lower plumage greyish brown ; the under 

 tail-coverts tipped with whitish. 



Legs and feet brown, dark on the joints and tips of claws ; bill 

 dark horny brown, paler on the lower mandible ; iris brown 

 (Hume). 



Length about 6 ; tail 2'5 to 2-9 ; wing 2-4 to 2'9 ; tarsus -85 ; 

 bill from gape '7. 



This species differs from the Cettia cetti of Europe in being con- 

 spicuously paler above and in being much larger. 



Distribution. Sind only, in India. Barnes states that Hume 

 obtained the bird in the mangrove-swamps of the Karachi har- 

 bour, but 1 cannot find that Hume ever noted it from this locality. 

 All the specimens that I have examined in his collection were 

 procured at or near Larkhana, as appears from the labels attached 

 to the birds. C. orientalis ranges northwards to Turkestan, and 

 westwards to Palestine. 



Genus UROSPHENA, Swinhoe, 1877. 



The genus Urosphena contains one Indian Warbler, instantly 

 recognizable by its short tail, which is only half as long as the 

 wing, and by the graduation of the tail-feathers, which causes the 

 tail, when expanded, to be fan-shaped, quite as much so as in 

 Cisticola. 



This Beed- Warbler, about the habits of which very little is 

 known, is a very rare visitor to Burma. 



457. Urosphena squamiceps. Swinhoes Reed-Warbler. 



Tribura squameiceps, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 292. 



Urosphena squamiceps (Swinh.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1877, p. 205, pi. iv ; 



Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 343 ; Hume, Cat. no. 522 ter ; Oates, 



B. . i, p. 100. 

 Cettia squamiceps (Swinh.'), Seebobm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 142. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage rich hair-brown tinged 

 with chocolate ; the feathers of the head rounded; the outer webs 

 of the quills brighter ; a distinct supercilium from, the nostril to 

 the nape buffy white ; lores and a streak between the supercilium 

 and the ear-coverts very dark brown ; ear-coverts and cheeks 

 buffy white, each feather tipped with brown ; the whole lower 

 plumage pale huffish white, turning to almost pure white on the 

 chin, throat, and middle of abdomen. 



Legs, feet, and claws fleshy-white ; two thirds of lower mandible 

 fleshy-white; rest of lower mandible and the upper one horny- 

 brown ; iris dark brown (Hume $f Davison). 



Length about 4 : tail 1*2 ; wing 2*1 : tarsus '7 ; bill from gape *65. 



