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Gen. Burnesia, Blyth. 



Bill very slender, rietal setas minute and fine ; tail graduate ; 

 legs long ; plumage distinctly streaked ; of small size and delicate 

 form ; otherwise as in Drymoipus. 



One species is found in India, and others apparently in Africa. 



550. Burnesia lepida, Blyth. 



Drymoica, apud Blyth, J. A. S., XIIL, 376 ; and XVI., 460 

 — Blyth, Cat. 807— Horsf., Cat. 507 — Khur-phootki, H. at 

 Monghyr — Door, Sindh. 



The Streaked Wren- Warbler. 



Descr. — General color light olive-grey above, each feather 

 having a medial dusky streak, broader on those of the crown 

 and back ; wings light dusky-brown ; the feathers margined with 

 olive-grey, and the tail throughout distinctly, but obsoletely, 

 banded above with narrow transverse duskyish lines, below pale, 

 with whitish tips and a sub-terminal dusky band, or rather spot, on 

 the inner web of each feather ; the under parts throughout are 

 greyish white ; the lores, and a slight supercilium, of the same hue. 



Bill plumbeous above, carneous below ; legs pale carneous- 

 yellow ; irides light yellowish brown. Length 5j inches ; wing 

 If ; extent 5^ ; tail 2f ; tarsus § ; bill at front f . 



This streaked Warbler has hitherto been only found along the 

 banks of the Hooghly and the Indus. Mr. Blyth found it in the 

 former locality, where says he, " It inhabits low scrub intermixed 

 with tufts of coarse sedgy grass, growing in sandy places by the 

 river side, and it frequently flies out to feed among the thin 

 herbage growing along the margin of the sand-dunes." I found 

 it not rare in Tamarisk scrub, on some large churrs on the Ganges, 

 at Monghyr. 



Dr. Gould, who observed it near Kurrachee, says, " It frequents 

 marshy bushes at the sea-side, in Scinde ; it is difficult to fiud and 

 shoot, for it runs among the roots, and now and then it perches on 

 a twig, and gives forth a wheezy feeble song, and then drops 

 again into the thickets." It is also figured araon" the drawings of 



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Sir A. Burnes, who found it in the same locality as Dr. Gould. 



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