242 F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birch inhabiting Kaclih, [No. 3, 



with paler shafts to the feathers ; a second specimen is paler, being slightly 

 olivaceous brown. Wings dull brown, primaries edged with olivaceous 

 white, secondaries with pale rufescent ; edge of wing white ; middle tail 

 feathers very conspicuously cross barred, the others dark or blackish brown 

 with white tips, the outer edge of the outermost feather is wholly white. 

 Lores, round the eye and the lower plumage white ; ear-coverts whitish, tinged 

 with pale ashy towards their tips ; sides of neck and breast tinged with 

 bluish ashy ; sides of belly, the abdomen and lower wing coverts, with ful- 

 vescent, and the tibial feathers are slightly rufescent. Bill brown, basal 

 half of lower mandible whitish ; legs fleshy, darker on the toes. Wing 2 "05 

 to 2-1 ; tail 25 to 26 ; tarsus 07 ; bill at front 042 inch. 



In the third specimen the upper plumage is still paler than in the other 

 two, ashy brownish, and the rufescent on the head very slight ; in other 

 respects it is exactly the same. Wing l - 95 ; tail 2 45 inch, bill and tarsus 

 the same, as in the two previous specimens. The more ashy and little smaller 

 bird is probably the female or young, but I had not determined the sexes. 



The birds were very abundant, flying from bush to bush, almost invari- 

 ably in company with Chatorhea caudata, and feeding mostly on the ground 

 between the bushes. 



Should this bird be Jerdon's F. Clegliornim ? (Comp. Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 24). It is a trifle smaller than Jerdon's measurements of Bicchanani, 

 but I can see no very perceptible distinctions between specimens of that bird 

 in the Museum and those from Kachh. Gray gives F. Cleghornice, in Hand- 

 list, Pt. I, p. 196, as a distinct species, and Blyth says that it differs from 

 Bwchanani by ' having the upper parts pale rufescent brown.' I dare 

 say a good series of the birds from the N. West Provinces will easily settle 

 tli is question, but several specimens of Buchanani, which I saw from the 

 North-West, are paler than the Kachh birds. 



553. Phyllopneuste eama, (apud Jerdon). Not common. 



In all birds which I observed, and which are referable to this species, 

 [as distinguished from the smaller Calomodyta (? Iduna) agricolensis, 

 Hume], the first primary was about 07 inch, long, but in some birds 

 the third is equal to the fourth, in others the fourth is a trifle longer than 

 the third primary, there is, however, no possibility of distinguishing the birds 

 either by plumage or size. The roundness of the ridge of the bill towards 

 its tip also slightly varies. Wing 2 - 4 ; tail 2 to 2T5 ; tarsus 075 to 077 •; 

 bill at front 0"4. 



This species is referred to by Gray (Handlist, I, p. 209) as a synonym 

 of Calamodyta (Idmia) calligata, Licht., a Siberian and Eastern European 

 species. The identification is very probably correct. 



554. Phylloscopus teistis. Not common. 



Wing 2-4 ; tail nearly 1-9, tarsus 075 ; bill at front G'33, from nostril 



