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sub-family, Drymoicince, They are mountain forms,. peculiar to the 

 Himalayas, and some of them are classed by Gray and Bonaparte 

 with the latter group. In their habits they resemble Acrocephalus 

 and Locustella. 



Gen. Tribura, Hodgson. 



Syn. Psendoluscinia, apud Blyth. 



Char. — Bill straight, moderately compressed, culmen distinctly 

 raised, acute at the base and notched ; gape smooth ; wing short, 

 rounded and feeble, 3rd, 4th and 5th quills about equal; tail 

 lengthened, graduated ; tarsus stout and smooth ; hind toe short. 



Blyth considers that this form is nearly allied to Locustella. 

 Saticaria cinnamomea, Ruppell, is considered to belong to it. 



522. Tribura luteoventris, Hodgson, 



P. Z. S., 1845, p. 30, and J. A. S., XIV., 583— Blyth, Cat. 

 1086— -Horsf., Cat. 521. 



The plain brown Reed-Warbler. 



Descr. — Above uniform olive-brown ; beneath paler, except the 

 flanks, which are slightly rufescent ; throat, and middle of the breast 

 and belly, yellowish, inclining to whitish. 



Bill dark horny above, pale below ; legs light brown. Length 5\ 

 inches ; wing 2 ; tail 1\ ; bill at front 11 mill ; tarsus f inch. 



Gray in his Genera places this bird as a Calamodyta. From the 

 Cachar of Nepal. 



Gen. Horornis, Hodgs. 



Char. — Bill feeble, slender, compressed, with rictal hairs scarcely 

 perceptible, distinct in some ; wings moderately short, the 4th and 

 5th quills equal and longest ; tail short, broad, much graduated, 

 tarsus long and strong ; feet moderate. 



This genus was considered, by its founder, to have the general 

 form of Tribura, (with some of the characters of Horeites) and 

 indeed was placed as a sub -genus of the former. Gray, in his 

 Genera, placed the species under Begulus, and Dr. Gray, in his last 

 list of Genera, and Bonaparte, place it next A brornis. Their habits 

 are not recorded, and, in their mode of coloration they are allied 

 to Tribura, but with a tendency towards the Tree-warblers. 



