212 CALAMOHERPIN.E. 



while in some the tippings are almost entirely wanting ; the 

 back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the same yellowish 

 olive-brown, becoming more rufescent on the lower back, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; the feathers of the centre of the back 

 with more or less conspicuous dark central shaft streaks. 



In some birds the whole back seems regularly striated with 

 dark lines, in others only a few faint darker streaks are visible 

 in the very centre of the back ; in some, again, the lower back 

 is much more decidedly rufous. The wings are hair-brown ; the 

 primaries very narrowly margined, and tipped on the outer webs, 

 paler ; the secondaries and tertiaries and most of the coverts 

 more distinctly margined with a sort of rufescent-olive ; the 

 wing-lining and axillaries pure, or nearly pure white ; tail 

 feathers somewhat pale hair-brown, obscurely margined with 

 rufescent-olive ; the shafts dull white below. 



The Moustached Grass Warbler is a cold weather visitant to 

 Sind ; it does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 



Lusciniola neglectus, Hume. 



Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 150. 

 HUME'S GRASS WARBLER. 



Length, 4 to 4'2 ; expanse, 6 '25 to 6'4 ; tail from vent, 1*4 to 

 1-6 ; wing, barely 2 to 215 ; bill at front, 0'27 to 0'3 ; tarsus, 0'68 

 to 071. 



Bill black, paler or horny-greenish in some at base of lower 

 mandible ; irides brown ; legs and feet black. 



The lores are brownish-white ; a comparatively pure and very 

 narrow white streak from the nostrils over the lores and eyes, but 

 not beyond. 



The whole upper surface is dull earthy-brown, with, in some, 

 a faintly olivaceous-rufescent tinge on the back, most con- 

 spicuous on the rump ; the quills and tail are a moderately dark 

 hair-brown, narrowly margined on the outer webs with pale 

 olivaceous-brown, much the same color as the upper parts ; the 

 secondaries are very narrowly margined at the tips with albescent, 

 tinged with very pale fulvous-fawn, or earthy- brown, more 

 strongly so in some specimens than in others ; the sides and flanks 

 are pale earthy-brown ; the wing-lining and axillaries are white, 

 with at times the faintest possible fulvous or brownish tinge. 



Hume's Grass Warbler, according to Murray, is a winter visitant 

 to Sind, chiefly affecting acacia groves. 



GENUS, Cettia, Bon. 



Tail rounded, lateral tail feathers short ; tarsi robust, scutellated 

 in front. 



Cettia cetti, Marm. 



. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 151. 



