312 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums.  [Vou. XI, 
2¢.- Serapei, Korinchi, 300 M. 
?. Muara Sako, Indrapura, 300 M. 
Iris pale brown, upper mandible blackish brown, lower 
brownish pink, tip sometimes darker, feet purplish or 
pinkish pale brown, digits darker, soles yellow. 
Wings, 3, 45, 45, 44; 9 43.5, 43, 41 mm. 
282. Orthotomus sepium cineraceus Blyth. 
36, 2?. Fort de Kock, Padang Highlands, 
920 M. 
g. Baso, Agam, Padang Highlands, 900 M. 
é imm. Palupah, Agam, Padang Highlands, 
640 M. 
é. Aur, Kumanis, Padang Highlands, 200 M. 
6, @. Balun, Muara Labu, Padang Highlands, 
480 M. 
g. Mt. Talamau, Ophir Districts, 500 M. 
Iris pale rusty brown, upper mandible sepia, lower 
pinkish with pale sepia tip, feet pinkish pale sepia, claws 
yellow. 
Wings 48.5, 49, 50, 50, 50, 50 (imm.), 51, 52.5; 92 45, 
47.5, 48 mm. 
The immature male has the chin and sides of throat 
much paler than in the adult, the foreneck and breast pale 
greyish white and a wash of greenish yellow on the sides 
of the neck and across the breast. The back is a dull earthy 
brown and there is no rufous forehead. 
Contents of stomach : insects. 
Lives in the scrub bush, in plantations, and is a standing 
inhabitant of village and town gardens, where it frequents 
by preference the hedges. According to the natives 
Cuculus (serial No. 113) deposits its eggs in the nest of 
this species. 
283. Cisticola juncidis cursitans (Frankl.) ? 
Cisticola cisticola R. & K., I, p. 218; R. & K., Il, p. 120. 
26,32, 1 sex inc. Balun, Muara Labu, Padang 
Highlands, 480 M. 26-29 July, 1914. 
Iris pale yellowish brown, upper mandible sepia, tomia 
yellowish white, lower mandible yellowish white with 
brownish tip, or yellowish pink with brownish tip, feet pale 
brownish pink. 
Wings, ¢ 47.5, 47; 2 46.5, 46.5, 46 ; sex inc. 45. Tails 
6 46,45; 9° 47, 43, —; sex inc. 42 mm. 
The feathers of the crown are black with narrow 
fulvous edges. 
