'1\}'2 SYLVIIN^E. 



GENUS, Sylvia, Latham. 



Bill moderate or slightly lengthened and slender, with the 

 rictal bristles almost obsolete ; wings lengthened and in some 

 pointed ; fi r st quill minute, second a little shorter than the 

 third and fourth, which are about equal ; secondaries broad ; 

 tail slightly rounded ; tarsus moderate or short, stout, and scu- 

 tate ; feet strong, short ; lateral toes unequal ; hind-toe moderate ; 

 claws moderately curved. 



Sylvia jerdoni, Blyth. 



581. Sylvia orphea, Tern. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 



p. 208 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 487 ; 



Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 409 ; Murray's Vertebrate 



Zoology of Sind, p. 161 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 



Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 



THE LARGE BLACK-CAPPED WARBLER. 



Length, 7 ; expanse, 9'25 ; wing, 3'2 ; tail, 75 ; tarsus, 0'9 ; 

 bill at front, 0'6. 



Bill blackish-horny, greyish at base beneath ; irides pale 

 whitish-yellow ; legs greenish-grey. 



Above brownish-ashy, tolerably pure ashy on the nape and 

 rump ; cap, lores, and ear-coverts black in the male, dusky or 

 blackish-grey in the female ; beneath whitish, pure white on 

 the throat and middle of the belly, tinged albescent on the 

 breast ; tail blackish, the outer feathers externally white, for the 

 basal two-thirds, and the next four successively less broadly tipped 

 white ; quills dusky -brown with pale edgings. 



The Black -capped Warbler is a not uncommon cold weather 

 visitant to all parts of the district. 



Sylvia affinis, Blyth. 



582. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 209 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 487 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. IX, p. 409 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 161 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 



THE ALLIED GREY WARBLER. 



Length, 6 ; wing, 2'65 ; tail, 2'25 ; tarsus, 075 ; bill at front, 0'45. 



Bill brown ; irides brownish-yellow ; legs brown. 



Head and neck cinereous ; ears dusky ; the rest of the plumage 

 above reddish cinereous ; wing and tail brownish ; outer tail 

 feathers nearly all white, the others only tipped with white ; 

 throat white ; rest of the plumage beneath white with a tinge of 

 reddish. 



The Allied Grey Warbler is generally distributed throughout 

 the district during the cold weather. 



Sylvia minuscula, Hume. 



5326k Murray's Vetebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 161. 



