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the tip, entire ; a few small but distinct rictal bristles ; wings 

 as in the last, but the first primary more developed, and the 

 wing somewhat shorter ; tail moderate, even, or slightly emar- 

 ginate in some ; tarsus and feet moderate ; claws slender. 



Phylloscopus tristis, Ely. 



554. Jerdon's Birds of India, VoL II, p. 190 ; Butler, Guzerat; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 486 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 . IX, p. 408; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 159. 



THE BROWN TREE WARBLER. 



Length, 5 ; expanse, 7'25 ; wing, 2'45 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 075 ; 

 bill at front, 0'37. 



Bill blackish, yellow beneath and at gape ; irides brown ; legs 

 brownish-black. 



Above uniform dull brown, below albescent, with a faint tinge 

 of ruddy on the pale supercilia ; sides of neck, breast, and flanks, 

 axillaries, and fore part of the wing underneath, pure light- 

 yellow. 



The Brown Tree Warbler is generally distributed throughout 

 the Presidency, but only as a seasonal visitant. 



Phylloscopus neglectus, Hume. 



S54&&. Stray Feathers, Vol. I, p. 195. 



HUME'S TREE WARBLER. 



Length, 4 to 4'2 ; expanse, 6 '2 5 to 6'4 ; tail, 1'4 to 1'6 ; wing, 

 2 to 215 ; tarsus, 0'68 to 071 ; bill at front, 0'27 to 0'3. 



Bill black, in some paler or greenish-horny at base beneath ; 

 irides brown ; legs and feet black. 



Lores brownish-white ; a comparatively pure and very narrow 

 white streak runs 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 conspicuous 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 ; the whole lower surface is albescent, tinged 

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

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

 strongly so in all ; in some specimens 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. 



Mr. Hume, the discoverer of this species, says : " This tiny Leaf 

 Hunter, the smallest of the whole group, is not uncommon along 

 the banks of the Indus and throughout Upper Sind; wherever 

 thick clumps of babool are met with." 



