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hair brown ; the whole upper plumage lax, and exactly that 

 of Dumeticola affinis in texture ; plumage of rump and upper- 

 tail very full, the latter reaching within 11 of end of tail ; 

 lower surface brownish oehraceous, a little fulvous white down 

 the centre of the abdomen ; the bases of the feathers of the 

 throat white, showing through where these are disturbed. The 

 sides and flanks much the same colour as the upper surface ; 

 the lower tail-coverts rather paler and faintly margined, still 

 paler at the tips ; the under surface of the tail very distinctly 

 rayed, I might almost say barred, lighter and darker. Edge of 

 the wing and wing-lining pale fulvous fawn ; ear-coverts 

 brownish rufous, many of the feathers with extremely narrow 

 rufescent white shaft stripes. 



I myself should not separate this bird generieally from Du- 

 meticola affinis. Dumeticola, of Blyth, dates from 1845, and was 

 founded on S. arundinacea, Lath., and is apparently synony- 

 mous with Calamodyta, Mey„ and Wolf., 1815. [Schcenicola, 

 Ely., (nee. Bp., 1851) dates "from 1844.] 



Now, neither our present bird nor D. affinis are congeneric 

 with arundinacea, Lath., (nee. Lin., which is strepera, Vieill.), 

 which, with its minute first primary, &c, is a clear Acrocepkalus, 

 and I think both birds must stand now as Schoenicola. 



In size and general appearance our present bird is very like 

 Savi's Warbler, Pseudoluscinia luscinioides (wrongly united, 

 as I think, by Mr. Dresser with Locustella) , but it is rather 

 deeper coloured above, and much more oehraceous rusty below. 

 The wing in Savi's Warbler is of course quite differently shaped, 

 with a small almost Acrocephaline first primary, and the bill is 

 longer, slenderer, less deep, straighter and less curved on the 

 culmen. 



470.— Oriolus kundoo, Sykes. 

 471.— Oriolus indicus, Jerd. 

 473.— Oriolus ceylonensis, Bp. S. F., I., 439. 



Specimens of all these three species are sent, and they are 

 said to be common, but only to ascend the hills in the cold 

 season. 



516.— Acrocephalus dumetorum, Blyth. 



A single specimen of this species is sent, obtained at Mv° 

 nail, 7th March 1877. 



