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Carnatic, and all through the Table-land of Southern India. It 

 also extends through Central India to the Upper Provinces, as far 

 as Peshawur, and the Nepal Terai, but not eastwards apparently, 

 for it is unknown in Bengal. A specimen I got near Mhow, 

 in Central India, was so much darker in color, that I at first con- 

 sidered it distinct, but Mr. Blyth, on comparison, pronounced it 

 identical with the bird of Southern India. 



Africa possesses a large number of Drymoicce, and affined birds, 

 some of which, as before stated, appear to belong to our new type 

 Graminicola. The Australian Maluri are conspicuous in this 

 family for the beautiful seasonal plumage of the male, which is 

 richly adorned with shining blue or red. Their habits do not ap- 

 pear to differ much from those of our Indian birds, but the eggs are 

 described as being fleshy white, with red-brown spots. Amytis and 

 Stipiturus, the latter with only six tail feathers, appear to belong to 

 the same group. , 



Sub. fam. Phylloscoptnjs, Tree- Warblers. 



Mostly of very small size ; plumage more or less green above ; 

 bill in some slightly widened and depressed ; wings moderate, or 

 rather long ; tail moderate or short ; tarsus moderate ; feet ar- 

 boreal. 



This group comprises a series of birds tolerably abundant 

 throughout India during the cold season, only one, and that not a 

 typical member of the group having been recorded to breed in the 

 plains. Many of them do not appear to leave the Himalayas, where 

 they are probably permanent residents, though wandering to dif- 

 ferent levels according to the season. They are exclusively in- 

 sectivorous, feeding on minute insects, flies, cicadelke, &c, &c, 

 which they pick off the leaves, or occasionally capture on the wing. 

 They are mostly social in the cold season, going about in small, 

 somewhat scattered flocks, and they have a pleasant chirping note. 

 Compared with the other Warblers, they are more strictly arboreal, 

 most of them frequenting high trees ; the bill is wider and more 

 flattened on the culmen, and the rictal bristles more developed. A 

 considerable number of species are found as summer residents in 

 Europe and Western Asia, migrating to the North of Africa 



