LUSCINIOLA 125 



grasses and well lined with fine grass and sometimes horsehair. 

 Its eggs 4 to 6, usually 5 in number, are rosy red, seldom 

 rusty red, marked with pale brown or rusty yellow shell-blotches 

 and fine twisted brown surface-streaks, sometimes pale rosy 

 red without marking, and the surface is polished and smooth. 

 In size they average about 23 by 16 millimetres (0'91 by 

 0'65 inch). 



177. INDIAN HILL WARBLER. 

 LUSCINIOLA INDICA. 



Lusciinola indica, (Jerdon.) Madr. Journal, xi. p. 6. (1840) ; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 126 ; Pleske, Orn. Ross. ii. p. 394 ; (Gates), F. 

 Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 404. 



( (India). Upper parts hair-brown, the rump tinged- with yellow ; 

 wings and tail paler margined, the outer tail-feathers tipped with white ; 

 supereilium deep yellow shading into buff ; sides of head washed with 

 buff ; underparts buffy yellow, dusky on the breast and flanks, the 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts brown ; bill and legs greenish yellow, 

 the former blackish on the culmen ; iris brown. Culmen 0'53, wing 2*5, 

 tail 2'1, tarsus 0'75 inch ; first primary 0*5 to 0'7, second about equal to or 

 rather longer than the tenth. In the autumn the upperparts are tinged 

 with olivaceous, and the underparts buffer. The young bird resembles the 

 adult in autumn. 



Hob.. The Himalayas, (Gilgit and Kashmir), Bokhara, 

 Turkestan, and the Altai range, retiring for the winter to the 

 plains of India as far south as Jalna in Hyderabad, and 

 Chanda. 



Like the Phylloscopi this Warbler frequents tree growth and 

 also bushes in rocky and precipitous localities. I find nothing 

 on record respecting its general habits or its nidification. 



178. DUSKY WARBLER. 



LUSCINIOLA FUSCATA. 



Liisc'm'wla fuscata, (Blyth), J.A.S. Beng. xi. p. 113 (1842) ; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 127 ; Pleske, Orn. Ross. ii. p. 398 ; (Gates), F. 

 Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 405. 



( (E. Siberia). Upper parts wings and tail brown, the wings and tail 

 margined exteriorly with olivaceous brown ; supereilium buffy white ; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts brown and pale buff intermixed ; underparts white 

 tinged with buff ; the breast, flanks, axillaries, and under tail-coverts buff ; 

 bill dusky brown ; the lower mandible yellowish except at the tip; legs 



