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trices next to the outermost similar, but with less white on the 

 outer webs and more on the tips. 



A conspicuous superciliary streak from the nostril extending 

 over the eye to the ear-coverts of a pale buff, or rich cream-color ; 

 lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts the same as the crown of the head, but 

 of a lighter shade ; the lower parts buffy, varying in shade and in 

 warmth of tone in different specimens, but always palest, and in 

 some almost white on the chin, the middle of the abdomen, the vent 

 and lower tail-coverts ; sides and flanks slightly infuscated ; axil- 

 laries, wing-lining and edge of wing from carpal -joint, cream-colored 

 varying in warmth of tinge in different specimens ; lower surface 

 of remiges and rectrices brownish-grey. 



The wings hair-brown, as dark as the tail ; the primaries and 

 secondaries very narrowly, and the coverts and tertiaries broadly, 

 margined with rufous or fulvous-brown of the same tone as 

 the rufous of the back. 



The Booted Tree Warbler occurs as a cold weather visitant 

 both in Sind and in the Deccan. 



Hypolais pallida, Hemp, fy Ehr. 



QoSte?. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 158 ; Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 398. 



THE PALE TREE WARBLER. 



Length, 5 ; wing, 2'63 ; tail, 2 -2 ; tarsus, 0'83 ; culinen, 0'62.. 



Bill horn-brown, dull yellowish at base beneath ; irided dark- 

 brown ; legs pale horn-brown. 



Upper parts pale dull olive-brown, clearer on the back in color, 

 and rather lighter on the rump ; from the base of the bill over 

 the eye a rather indistinct yellowish stripe ; WIIK T ark-brown ; 

 the inner secondaries lighter in color, all the feathers having 

 lighter margins ; tail dark-brown, very narrowly edged with 

 lighter brown ; under parts buffy- white ; the throat and the 

 centre of the abdomen almost pure white ; flanks washed with 

 pale brownish. 



The Pale Tree Warbler only occurs in Sind as a cold weather 

 visitant. 



Hypolais languida, Hemp, 8f Ehr. 



553quat Stray Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 398. 



Length, 5 '25 ; wing, 31 ; tail, 275 ; tarsus, 0'9 ; culmen, 075. 



Soft parts as in H. pallida. 



In general coloration of plumage similar to H. pallida, but a 

 trifle greyer ; bill narrower and more slender ; first primary 

 much shorter and narrower. First primary scarcely as long as 

 the primary-coverts, T8 shorter than the second, second 0*2 

 shorter than the third, third and fourth about equal. 



This Tree Warbler has been found in Beluchistan, and is 

 somewhat doubtfully recorded from Sind. It occurs in the winter 

 season only. 



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