220 DRYMOICINjE. 



the chin and throat and middle of abdomen, tinged at times on 

 the breast with grey, more purely buff on lower tail-coverts and 

 wing-lining, and more rufescent on tibial plumes ; inner webs of 

 primaries and secondaries hair-brown. The young birds are much 

 paler and more albescent on the lower surface. 



The Great Rufous Wren Warbler occurs at Mahableshwar, 

 Ratnagiri, and probably all along the Sahyadri Range ; it is not 

 uncommon at Aboo and Deesa. It has not been recorded from 

 any other portion of our limits. Drymoipus rufescens equals 

 D. insignis in winter plumage. 



Drymoipus sylvaticus, Jerdon. 



545. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 181. 



THE JUNGLE WEEN WARBLER. 



Length, 6 ; wing, 2*4 ; tail, 275 ; tarsus, 1. 



Bill black ; irides orange buff; legs dark fleshy-yellow. 



Above olive-brown; superciliary streak and beneath white, tinged 

 throughout with yellowish ; tail obsoletely barred, with a narrow 

 subterminal dark band, tipped with white, except on the central 

 tail-feathers. 



The Jungle Wren Warbler occurs in Central India and Khan- 

 deish ; it has not been recorded from either the Deccan, Guzerat, 

 or Sind. I found it breeding near Neemuch in July ; the nest was 

 purse-shaped, composed of rough grass, and contained three fresh 

 eggs, pale greenish-white in color, thickly spotted with rusty-red, 

 the spots much more dense at the larger end. Mr. Davidson found 

 them to be far from uncommon in Khandeish, and he informs me 

 that the number of eggs is usually four and occasionally five. 



Drymoipus neglectus, Jerdon. 



546. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 182 ; Butler, Deccan ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 407. 



THE ALLIED WREN WARBLER. 



Length, 6; wing, 2*4 ; tail, 2*5 to 3; bill at front, 0'4 ; 

 tarsus, 0*9. 



Bill dusky, fleshy beneath ; irides amber ; legs dingy-fleshy. 



Plumage greenish ashy-brown, but with a decided tinge of 

 rufous throughout ; beneath whitish, strongly tinged with olive - 

 rufous ; tail very faintly barred. 



A single specimen was obtained in Ratnagiri, but Jerdon states 

 it to be common at and near JMhow. I did not meet with it. 

 D. neglectus probably equals D. sylvaticus. 



GENUS, Blandfordius, Hume. 



Tail of 12 feathers ; wings, with the fifth, sixth, and seventh 

 quills, equal and longest ; fourth equal to eighth ; third nearly equal 

 to ninth. 



