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white wing-bars. Lower plumage, yellowish whihe, dusk}^ brown on 

 the flanks. 



Iris, brown. Bill, dark brown above, yellowish horn-colour 

 below, dusky at the tip. Mouth, 3^ello\v. Legs, yellowish brown. 



HahiiSf etc. This bird also is a winter visitor, and has much the 

 same habits and note as FJti/lloscopus fuscattis ( page 86 ), to whicli it 

 also bears a close general resemblance. The present species may, 

 however, be distinguislied by its very minute first primary ( that of 

 P. faseatus being fully one-third the length of the wing ), by the 

 greenish tinge on its upper plumage, the yellowish tinge on its lower 

 parts, and the presence of the yellowish white bars on the wings. 

 These bars, however, are sometimes indistinct, or almost wanting, 

 owing to the wearing away of the feathers. 



Distrihition. Also recorded from Trang by Robinson and Kloss 

 under the name of PJu/lloscopus horealis. 



-]- 20 (468). Prinia blanfordi. T he Burwe.^e Wrcn- 



Warhlcr. 



Sidmoso, 'unnJS^UVn^ iT!JQ ( Nok kraehil^ hang rlo ) 



Besd'iption. Length, from 132 mm. ( 5.2 in. ) to 152 mm. 

 ( 6 in ), according to season — the tail being longer in the winter. 

 Upper plumage, earthy brown, darker on the head and paler on the 

 rump, which has a fulvous tinge ; a whitish supercilium reaching to 

 just behind the eye. Lower plumage, whitish, with buff tinge ; thighs, 

 deeper buff; under side of tail feathers, with black bands near the tips, 



L-is, clear brownish yellow. Bill, brown, except base of lower 

 mandible, which is pale flesh-colour. Legs, pale reddish yellow. 



Habits, etc. A resident species, and common along our subur- 

 ban khlongs and other similar places with rushes and high grass grow- 

 ing by the waterside. It is a slender little brown bird, with rather a 

 long tail ( hence the words hang 'no, in the Siamese name, meaning 

 " tapering-tailed " ), and has a sibilant, almost insect-like, note of 

 chree-chree-ehree-chree repeated a great many times. 



DiMrilmtion. Reported also from Eastern and Northern Siam 

 { Gyldenstolpe ). 



