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LUSCINIOLA 129 



$ ad. (India). Upper parts, wings and tail olive-brown tinged with 

 rufous ; lores and supercilium ashy white, sides of head and neck ashy 

 brown ; throat ashy brown spotted with black ; chin and abdomen white ; 

 breast ashy ; flanks and under tail-coverts dull reddish brown the latter 

 tipped with dull white ; bill dark brown the base of the lower mandible 

 paler ; legs pale fleshy ; iris hazel. Culmen 0'5, wing 2'25, tail 2'5, tarsus 

 0'7 inch : first primary about half the length of the second which is equal 

 to the 9th or 10th, 3rd, 4th, and 5th nearly equal and longest. In the 

 winter the sides of the head and neck, the throat and breast are 

 washed with ochreous and the spots on the throat are smaller. The young 

 bird has the chin, throat, and abdomen dull yellowish tinged with green 

 and the rest of the under parts dull ochreous brown and the throat is 

 mottled or irregularly barred with brown. 



Hob. Southern Siberia near Lake Baikal, north China, Kansu, 

 Moupin, Nepal, Sikhim, and Kashmir. 



Frequents dry localities, meadows, etc. where the vegetation is 

 rich, and there are dense bushes, and also damp places. It is 

 not shy and if disturbed will not fly far. Its song, which is 

 generally uttered from a dead branch of a bush, is described as 

 resembling the syllables trschi-trschi-trschi-trschi. It breeds 

 early in July, and its nest, which is placed in the branches of a 

 fallen tree covered with grass or in a heap of sticks is oven-shaped, 

 constructed of dry grass and lined with the same but finer 

 materials. The eggs 4 to 6 in number are white with a rose 

 tinge, spotted and dotted with purplish ashy and purplish * 

 brown, the spots being more numerous round the larger end, 

 and in size average about 18*46 by 131 millimetres (0'72 by 

 0-51 inch). 



184. LARGE BILLED BUSH- WARBLER. 

 LUSCINIOLA MAJOR. 



Lusciniola major, (Brooks), J.A.S. Beng. xli. p. 77 (1872) ; (Gates), F. 

 Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 362 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mas. v. p. 124 ; 

 Pleske, Prjevalsky's Reisen, ii. p. 123, Taf. i. fig. 5. 



Chighchi, Turki. 



ad. (Gilgit). Upper parts dull light olivaceous brown washed with 

 fulvous ; wings and tail brown with margins like the back ; supercilium 

 buffy white, indistinct ; chin and throat white spotted with brown ; centre 

 of abdomen white, the rest of the underparts ochraceons brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries buffy white ; beak blackish ; legs yellowish 



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