CISTICOLA. 641 



Eufescent, dark olive-brown above, rufous more intense on the lower back. 

 Quills edged with bright ferruginous. Chin and throat white, slightly ashy on 

 the breast. Abdomen rufescent white. Tail-hair brown. Bill black. Legs fleshy 

 coloured. 



The species is very near P. gracilis, which I also obtained at Bham6, but it has 

 a shorter wing. The only differences between the specimens and the type are 

 that the tail is not so rufescent in the birds from Bliamo and the breast is faintly 

 cinereous. 



132. Prinia guacilis, Pranklin. 



Frinia gracilis, Frankl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 119 ; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 162, 1848; Blyth, 

 Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 143, 1849; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 172, 1863; G. 

 King, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 215 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 196, 

 1869; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 414; Hume, t. c, p. 478; id., op. cit., 1875, p. 136; id.. 

 Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 341, 1873; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 

 1875, ex. No., p. 119; Butler, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 480. 



a. S Bhamo, 28th January 1868. 



133. Prinia hodgsoni, Blyth. 



Frinia gracilis, Jerdon, Madr. Journ., vol. xi, p. 3, 1840. 



Frinia Jiodgsoni, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 376, 1844; id., op. cit., vol. xvi, p. 456, 

 1847; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Coll. Hodgs., p. 63, 1846; id.. Gen. B., vol. i, p. 162, 

 1848; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 143, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 284, 1850 ; 

 Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 322, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 173, 

 1863; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c, Nepal, Coll. Hodgs., p. 28, 1863; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, 

 p. 196, 1869; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 136; id., op. cit.,l'61Q,^. 37; Ball, t.c, 

 p. 234; Fairbank, t. c, pp. 259 and 265; Hume, t. c, p. 40; id.. Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., 

 p. 342, 1873; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 119; 

 W. Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 466. 



Frinia albigularis, Walden, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4), vol. v, p. 219, 1870; Blyth, Ibis, 1871, p. 112. 



a. h. % Muangla, 19th May 1868. 

 c, Sanda, 26th July 1868. 



I have compared these specimens with Blyth's types, from which they in no 

 way differ. 



Genus Cisticola, Kaup, 

 134. Cisticola melanocephala, Andr. 



Cisticola melanocephala, Axi.dieYQ.,Vvoc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 212; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, 

 Bengal, vol. xliii, 1874, p. 165, pi. ix, fig. 2; id., op. cit., vol. xlv, 1875, p. 30. 



Cisticola ruficollis, Walden, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4), vol. vii, p. ^41, 1871; Stray Feathers, 1875, 

 p. 283; op. cit., 1877, p. 90 ; Hume, t. c, pp. 93, 140. 



a. h. Sanda, July 1868. 



Total length 4"-35 ; wing l"-70 ; tail 2" ; tarsus 0"'72 ; bill 0"-52. 



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