90 OUR INDIAN CISTICOLiE. 



I do not think, I may add, thai it is in any way dependant 

 on age, as a somewhat analogous change is, I believe, iu 

 Gampsorhyiichus rufulus. There are much too many white 

 Wimpong birds, to permit us to suppose that white indicates 

 non-age, and if it indicated age we must have got a fair pro- 

 portion of these elsewhere, whereas all the birds procured 

 elsewhere are typical, except four which only deviate from the 

 type in having the chin and throat unstreaked white. 



Perhaps, after all, it may be an incipient species, and the white 

 fellows running about on the grey limestone rocks, may have 

 the pull over their darker brethren, who will hence eventually, 

 as the lawyers phrase it, cease and determine. In that case 

 when the species shall be fairly established, I should recommend 

 -V- for it the name of T. Darwini in perpetual memory of the great 

 naturalist who first brought really home to most of us, the 

 potent modifying influences of external conditions on organic 

 life. 



A. 0. H. 



fax InMau Cisticote. 



Our Indian list, as usually accepted, exhibits a considerable 

 number of members of the genus Cisticola (Kaup. 1829) . 



1 — Cisticola cursitatis, FrankL, Pro. Comm. Sci.&L. 

 Z. S., 18SI. —Jerd. 111. In. On. pi. 6.— Sylvia 

 cisticola, Tern., Man. d'Orn. 228, 1820 ; P. C. 6,— C. 

 schcenicola, Bp., 1838. — Salicaria brunniceps, Tern. 

 and Schl. Faun. Jap. 134 t. XX. c. 



2.— Cisticola munipurensis, God-Aust., P. Z. S., 

 1874, 47; J. A. S.B., XLIII., 165, pi. IX., f. 2, 



1874— S. P. III., 397. 



3.— Cisticola homalura, Bly. 9 Cat. of B. Mus. A. S. B., 

 145, No. 822, 1849 (sinedescr.) ; J. A. S. B., XX., 

 176, 1851, (descr. orig.) ; Ibis, 1867, 302. 



4.— Cisticola melanocephala, Anders. P. Z. S. Feby. 

 21, 1871, 212.— God.-Aust., J. A. S. B., XLIII., 

 165, PI. X, f. 1, 1874.— C. ruficollis, Wald., A. and 

 M. N. II., 1871, 241,— S. P. Ill, 283. 



5.— Cisticola Tytleri, Bly., J. A. S., B. (?);— Jerd 

 B. of I. II., 176, 1863.— Bly., Ibis 1865, 44. 



