398 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



553 ter.—Hypolais pallida, Hemp, and Mr. 



This species, or sub-species, is very close to H. rama, but is 

 somewhat larger with a longer and decidedly larger bill. I have 

 received a specimen from Sindh, which was undistinguishable 

 from one of elceica (which I include under pallida) from 

 Europe. 



The two forms rama and pallida, however, quite run into 

 each other, and many of the Sindh and Beluchistan specimens 

 are quite intermediate. 



Blanford contrasts thus the dimensions of typical examples of 

 both races : — 



H. rama. Wing, 2'35-2 , 53 ; culmen, 57-0-68 ; 2nd primary equals 7th-9th 

 S. pallida. „ 2-45-2-7 ; „ 0-6-0-72 ; 2nd „ * „ 5th-7th 



The following is Dresser's description :— 



" Adult Male — Upper parts pale dull olive-brown, clearer 

 on the back in colour, and rather lighter on the rump ; 

 from the base of the bill over the eye a rather indistinct yellow- 

 ish stripe ; wings dark brown ; the inner secondaries lighter in 

 colour, all the feathers having lighter margins ; tail dark brown, 

 very narrowly edged with lighter brown ; underparts buffy 

 white ; the throat and the centre of the abdomen almost pure 

 white ; flanks washed with pale brownish ; bill horn-brown, dull 

 yellowish at the base of the lower mandible ; legs pale horn 

 brown ; iris dark brown. Total length about 5 inches ; culmen, 

 0*62 ; breadth of under mandible at base, 0*22 ; wing, 2-63 ; 

 first primary extending 0*27 beyond the wing-coverts, and 1'15 

 shorter than the second ; second 0*2 shorter than the third ; third 

 and fourth equal ; tail, 2*2 ; tarsus, 0'83. 



" Female. — Similar to the male, but, if anything, a trifle 

 greyer on the upper parts." — Dresser, ei Birds of Europe." 



553 quat.— Hypolais languida, Hemp, and Ehr. 



This is another of this group of earth brown Warblers that 

 may be accepted as a species or ranked as a race selon le gout. 

 This present form is more distinct than many others, and though 

 extremely like H. pallida, may be distinguished from it by its 

 somewhat larger size and much shorter and narrower first pri- 

 mary, and if birds killed in the same month are compared by 

 its greater tinge. It occurs in Beluchistan, and has been re- 

 ported from Sindh, whence non vidi. 



