51 K Birds of Celebes: Sylviidae. 



23; (6) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 201; (7) Everett, P. Z. S. 1889 224; (8) id.. J. Str. 

 Br. R. A. S. 1889, 102; (9) Hartert, J. f. 0. 1889, 349; (10) Whitehead, Ibis 

 1890, 51; (11) Seeb., B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 77; (11<"-') Steere, List Coll. B. & M. 

 Pliilipp. Is, 1890, 20; (12) Hartert, Kat. Vog. Slg. Senckenb. Mus. 1891, 17; (13) Styan, 

 Ibis 1891, 317, 320, 335; [14) Biittik., Notes Leyd. Mus. 1892, 197; (15) De La 

 Touche, Ibis 1892, 417; (16) Seeb., Bjis 1893, 48; (17) Styan, t. c. 428; (18) 

 Grant, Il)is 1894, 505; (19) Bourns & Worces., B. Menage Exp. 1894, 39; (20; 

 Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 151, 557, 566, 574, 580, 593; (21) id., ib. 1897, 155. 

 /; Cisticola oryziola (S. Mull?); (1) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 46. 

 For synonymy and further references see Sliarpe e 2. 

 Figures and descriptions. Dresser I/; Gould c /; Legge 6\ David & Oustalet d 1\ 



Vorderman 11\ Gates el, 17; Sharpe e 2. 

 Adult. Fulvous- or wood-brown, the middles of the feathers on head above blacldsh, on 

 hind neck paler and more obscure; mantle and inner quills more drab -brown 

 with blackish centres; rump and upper tail-coverts and exposed edges of the 

 other quills and wing-coverts cinnamon; tail olive-brown with narrow obsolete 

 bars, an obscure broad subterminal bar black, tip bro\NTiish white; ear-coverts ful- 

 vous brown, lores and superciliary stripe buff white; under-parts white, washed 

 with rufous buff on sides of throat, breast, and under wing-coverts, becoming deep 

 rufous buff on sides, flanks and thighs, rather paler on under tail-coverts; tail be- 

 low pale 1)rown crossed by a broad subterminal bar of blackish, tip wliitish (Java: 

 V. Schierbrand — C 9166). Wing 53 mm; tail 44; tarsus 20; bill from nostril 7.5. 

 Young, "The young are more rufous than the adults, the black stripes on the upper plumage 



being narrower and the rufous edgings broader" (Gates f 1). 

 Eggs. Marked most densely towards the large end with red, reddish-purple and pale purple 

 specks on a white, faint pearly or greenish white ground (India). The average mea- 

 surements of Indian specimens recorded by Hume (16) are 15 X 11-7 mm, and the 

 usual mmiber laid is five. 

 Nest. The nest is described as a deep narrow purse about 3 inches in depth, 1 inch in 

 diameter at top, and 1.5 inch at the broadest part ))elow, internally closely felted Avith 

 silky down, externally of grasses, cobwebs and fine vegetable fibres, with which it is 

 worked into a patch of fine-stemmed grass of 1 '/j — 2 feet high, at a height of about 

 6 — 8 inches from the ground (Hume 16). See also nests fi-om Java (Meyer f 1), 

 some of which are also felted with silky do^mi. 

 Distribution. S. Europe; Africa; Asia Minor; Palestine (Tristram II)\ India (Hume etc. 

 16); Ceylon ^Legge etc. 6'); Burmah and Tenasserim (Gates el, Davison 3); Nico- 

 bars (AVimberley e 2, Hume 11); Central and Southern China (David d 1, Styan 

 e 13, De La Touche e 15); Southern Japan (Pryer etc. e 11); Loochoo Islands 

 (fide Seebohm e 11, e 16); Fonnosa and Hainan (Swinhoe 77); Philippines — Luzon 

 (Maitland-Heriot 12, Steere ell^'% North Bohol (Everett 4), Palawan (Whitehead 

 e 6, e 10), Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester e 19); Malay Peninsula (Hume 5, 

 Gates e 1); Singapore (Hume 5, Kelham •S''"); Sumatra (Hartert e 9); Billiton 

 (Vorderman 19, 20); Java fv. Schierbrand e 1, Vorderman 11); Lombok (Doherty 

 and Everett e 20); Sumbawa (Doherty e 20); Sumba (ten Kate e 14); Flores 

 (Wallace e 2); Timor (Wall, e 2); Celebes — Macassar (Wall. 1, e 2, Everett e 20); 

 Mount. Bonthain (Doherty e 21); Lake Posso (P. & F. Sarasin 22); Peling Id. 

 ^Nat. CoH. 23). 



In keeping the birds of the above broad area under one name we follow 

 Dresser, Legge, Sharpe, and Oates This appears to be the wisest course, 



