394 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



With the above facts before me I cannot look on the unspot- 

 ted bird as being a distinct species, but consider that it is 

 merely in the state of plumage in which the white spot is 

 absent, and is probably an old male of the White-spotted Blue 

 Throat. This being the case, I have no alternative but to use 

 the specific appellation of wolfii instead of leucocyanea, it having 

 the precedence by nine years. — Dresser, " Birds of Europe.'''' 



519 Us.— Schoenicola brunneipectus, Bly. (vide 

 S. F., VII., 38.) 



Blyth's description of this species, which I reproduce for pur- 

 poses of comparison, appears to me as I said at the time (S. F., 

 Ill, 284) to agree perfectly, so far as it goes, with Mr. Brooks' 

 S. vnandelli. Of course spotting or no spotting on the breast 

 goes for nothing in this group. 



Blyth says, Ibis, 1867, 19 :— 



Dumeticola brunnectus, Sp- Nov > 



Size and form of D. affinis, and the upper parts are of the 

 same uniform dark olive brown colour ; lores, chin and throat, 

 and middle of the belly pure white ; sides of the throat, breast, 

 flanks, and tibial plumes rufescent brown ; lower tail-coverts 

 brown, with broad, pale tips, though considerably less broad 

 than are the white tips to the lower tail-coverts of D. affinis."" 



536 quat.— Prinia humilis, Hume, 



Dimensions. — Length, 4'75 ; expanse, 5*5 ; tail, 2 25 ; wing, 

 2 ; when closed, reaching to within 1"38 of end of tail ; bill 

 from front, "4 ; tarsus, 0"76. 



Descriptions. — Head, neck, and upper back pale earthy brown, 

 with an olive green shade ; scapulars, lower back, and rump 

 rufous olivaceous brown ; quills brown, edged with rufous 

 brown ; tail (of twelve feathers) brown, faintly rufous, obscure- 

 ly rayed above, beneath all but the two middle feathers con- 

 spicuously and narrowly tipped with white, and with a broad 

 blackish brown subterminal band ; lower parts silky fulvous 

 white ; the breast shaded obscurely with dusky, and the flanks, 

 lower abdomen, and tibial feathers distinctly tinged with pale 

 rufous buff ; legs and feet pale reddish brown ; bill black ; 



