396 BIEDS OCCUEEING IN INDIA NOT DESCEIBED 



553 bis. — Hypolais caligata, Eversm. 



I reproduce my original description of Jerdonia agricolensis, 

 which is said by ornithologists at home, who are supposed to 

 have examined Eversmann's types, to be identical with his 

 caligata. The matter seems to me still open to question, but 

 anyhow if the birds should prove to be different, it is the bird 

 described by me below that occurs, and indeed is very common 

 with as in Upper and Western India. 



Dimensions. — Length, 4*5 to 5 ; expanse, 6*5 to 7 ; wing, 

 222 to 2-32 ; tail from vent, 1-9 to 21 ; tarsus, -8 ; middle 

 toe and claw, "63 ; hind toe and claw, '4 ; outer toe and claw, '38 ; 

 bill from front, "35 to "39 ; from gape, '55 to '62 ; width at gape, 

 •28 ; height at base, '09. 



Description. — Bill, upper mandible dark brown, with the 

 edges light ; lower mandible flesh-coloured, rather dusky to- 

 wards the tip ; inside of mouth orange yellow ; legs and feet 

 fleshy grey, in some tinged with yellowish, especially on the 

 soles, in some glaucous ; irides hazel brown. 



Plumage {immediately after the Autumnal moult) . — Feathers 

 of the head, nape, back, and scapulars lax, hair brown, tinged 

 towards the margins with a paler, slightly rufous or fulvous 

 brown (the whole in some specimens with a faint shade of olive.) 

 Rump paler and rather more rufous in tone ; upper tail-coverts 

 hair brown, with lighter fulvous brown edges ; tail dark 

 brown, all but the two outermost rectrices very narrowly mar- 

 gined with pale fulvous or greyish white ; outermost feather 

 on each side with the whole of the outer web dull or greyish- 

 white ; tips and internal margin also greyish white ; rectri- 

 ces next to the outermost similar, but with less white on the 

 outer webs and more on the tips. 



A conspicuous superciliary streak from the nostril extending 

 over the eye to the ear-coverts of a pale buff, or rich cream- 

 colour ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts the same as the crown of 

 the head, but of a lighter shade ; the lower parts buffy, vary- 

 ing in shade and in warmth of tone in different specimens, but 

 always palest, and in some almost white, on the chin, the 

 middle of the abdomen, the vent and lower tail-coverts ; sides 

 and flanks slightly infuscated ; axillaries, wing-lining, and 

 edge of wing from carpal joint cream coloured, varying in 

 warmth of tinge in different specimens ; lower surface of 

 remiges and rectrices brownish grey. 



The wing hair brown, as dark as the tail ; the primaries and 

 secondaries very narrowly, and the coverts and tertiaries 

 broadly, margined with rufous or fulvous brown of the same 

 tone as the rufous of the back. 



