LUSCINIOLA. 



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AcrOcephalus agricola, Jerd. Madras Journ. xiii. pt. ii. p. 131 ; 

 BIyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 182 j Jerd. B. Ind. p. 156, No. 517; 

 Miumy, Hdbk.jZool., ^-c, Sind, 153; Seebohm, Gat. B. Br.Mus. vol. v. 

 p. 105 ; Dresser, B. Ear. pt. liii. Salicaria capistrata, modesta et gracilis, 

 Severtz. 8tr. F. 1875, pp. 425,426.— The Paddy-Field Waebler, 



Above from pale rufous brown to earthy brown ; supercilium faint, 

 nearly obsolete; wings, wing-coverts and tail feathers slightly darker, 

 the feathers edged rufescent or earthy brown; beneath whitish with a 

 fulvous tinge ; bill brown, fleshy at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 legs horn brown; irides yellowish. 



Length. — 5'25 to 5'5 inches, wings 2"25, tail 2"25, bill at front 0'55. 



Hab. — According to Seebohm, this little warbler breeds in the valley 

 of the Lower Volga, extending its range eastward in the Palsearctic 

 region, at least as far as Turkistan, and probably to China. It also 

 breeds in the Himalayas from Cashmere to Nepaul, and winters in the 

 plains of India. Occurs as a migrant in Southern India, Sind, 

 Deccan, Punjab, Beloochistan and Afghanistan. 



Gen. Lusciuiola, Gray; Phragamaticola, Jerd. 



Lusciuiola melanopogon, Tern. PI. Col. pi. 2.45, fig. ^ ; id. 

 Man. d' Orn. iii. p. 121 ; Gray, List Gen. p. 28; Rume, Str. F. 1873, 

 p. 190; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., ^c, Sind, p. 153; Seebohm, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. p. 1 32 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. pt. Ivi. Oalamodyta melanopogon, 

 Tern. Gray, Handlist, B. i. p. 210; Shelley, B, Egypt, p. 93. Calamodus 

 melanopogon {Tern.) Blf. East. Pers. ii. p. 198. — The Moustached 

 Geass Waebleb. 



A broad conspicuous white stripe from the nostrils over the eyes 

 and ear coverts; a dark brown stripe from in front of, under, and 

 through the eyes, enveloping the upper portion of the ear-coverts, 

 darker in the males than in the females; the chin, throat and lower 

 parts, including the lower tail-coverts white, faintly tinged rufescent on 

 the breast, more strongly so on the flanks, about the vent, and in some 

 specimens the lower tail-coverts also ; the sides both of the neck and of 

 the body tinged with greyish or in some olivaceous brown ; fore- 

 head, crown, occiput, and nape very dark brown, the feathers tipped 

 and margined a paler yellowish olive brown ; in some specimens these 

 tippings entirely obscure the base, except on a narrow line immediately 

 above the white eye-streak ; in others these parts appear to be very 

 dark brown regularly striated with a pale olive brown, while in some 

 the tippings are almost wanting; the back, scapulars, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, the same yellowish olive brown, becoming more rufescent 

 on the lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts ; the feathers of the 

 centre of back with more or less conspicuous dark central shaft-streaks ; 

 in some birds the whole back seems regularly streaked with dark lines, 

 in others only a few faint darker streaks are visible in the very centra 

 of the back; in some again the lower back is much more decidedly 

 rufous; the wings are hair brown ; the primaries very narrowly margined 

 and tipped on the outer web paler ; the secondaries and tertiaries and 

 most of the coverts more distinctly margined with a sort of rufescent 



