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dusky flesh ; iris brown. Culmen 0'49, wing 2'45, tail 2'25, tarsus 0'9 

 inch ; first primary O8 long, second intermediate between the 9th and 10th. 

 After the autumn moult the upper parts are richer brown ; the supercilium 

 buff ; and the breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts rich deep buff. 



Hob. Northern Asia from the valley of the Yenesei to the 

 Pacific Ocean, and Japan, China and Mongolia on passage, and 

 winters in Southern China, Assam, Burma, Bengal, and the 

 N. W. Provinces of India east of the longitude of Etawah. 



Frequents low bushes on the plains and at low altitudes in the 

 hills especially in damp localities, and is as a rule not shy. Its 

 alarm-note resembles the syllables tscheck-tscheck, tscheck, and its 

 song is simple though loud, and may be heard throughout the 

 summer till the young are fledged. It breeds in June, and its 

 nest, which is placed on the ground or in a low bush within a 

 couple of feet from the ground, is oven-shaped with the entrance 

 hole in the side, constructed of dry grasses and moss, and well 

 lined with feathers. The eggs 4 to 6, usually 5 in number, are 

 pure white, rather pointed at the smaller end, and in size 

 average about 16'6 by 12*5 millimetres. (O65 by 0'49 inch). 

 The Cuckoo very frequently deposits its eggs in the nests of this 

 Warbler. 



179. DYBOWSKI'S WARBLER. 

 LUSCINIOLA HOMEYERI. 



Lusciniola homeyeri, (Dybowski), Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. 358 (1883) ; 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 275 ; Pleske, Ornith. Ross, ii. p. 409. 



Differs from L.fuscata, in having a smaller bill, compressed laterally at 

 the base ; first primary nearly half the length of the second which equals 

 the 8th. or is intermediate between the 8th and 9th ; upper mandible horn- 

 brown, paler on the edges, lower mandible yellowish ; legs dark horn- 

 brown. 



This species is only known by two specimens obtained by Dr. 

 Dybowski at Tigil in Kamchatka neither of which I have 

 seen, and take the description from Mr. Pleske. 



180. ARMAND'S WARBLER. 

 LUSCINIOLA ARMANDI. 



.Lusciniola armandi, (Milne-Edwards), Nouv. Archives. Mus. Bull. i. p. 

 22 (1865) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 130 ; Pleske \ 

 Prjevalsky's Reisen, ii. Vogel, p. 119, Taf. iii. fig. 2. Taf. v. fig. 10 

 (eggs) ; L. davidii, (Swinhoe), P.Z.S. 1871, p. 355. 



