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Sub-Family, SYLVIIN^,— Geey Warblees. 



Bill moderately slender, with few rictal bristles at base; nostrils in a 

 groove ; wings — first quill short, 2nd shorter than 3rd and 4th, which 

 are equal or sub-equal ; tarsi moderate, scutellate. 



Gen. Sylvia, Lath.; Curruca, Koch. 



Characters same as those of the Sub-Family. Outermost tail feathers 

 generally white. 



Sylvia jerdoni, BlytJi, /. A. 8. B. xvi. p. 439; Blf. East. -Persia, 

 ii. p. 172; Hume, 8tr. F. i. p. 197, ii. 330; Seehohm, Monog. B. Br. 

 Mus. p. 16. — The Eastern Orphean Warbler. 



Adult Male. — General colour slaty grey; head, Wes, and feathers 

 behind the eye, ear-coverts and nape sooty black ; primaries and 

 secondaries brown, their outer margins whitish ; the secondaries edged 

 at the tips with greyish white, as also some of the tertiaries; tail 

 darker brown than the wings, the outermost feathers white on the 

 outer web, and nearly one-half of the inner, the next two tippe'd 

 white ; in some specimens the centre feathers are margined very 

 narrowly and tipped with fulvescent white ; chin and throat white ; 

 belly, flanks, vent and under tail-coverts greyish white, darker on the 

 under tail-coverts; bill dark brown; the base of the lower mandible 

 pale yellowish ; legs and feet dusky brown ; irides hazel. 



Length.— 6-"o to 7 inches, wing 3 to 3-25, tail 2-75. The Female 

 differs from the male in having the brown of theheadless darker than the 

 back. 



Hab. — Northern and Western India, Sind, Punjab, N, W. Provinces, 

 Beloochistan, S. E. Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Kutch, Kattiawar; 

 Jodhpore, Jeypore, North Guzerat, Mount A boo and Deccan. Breeds 

 in Persia and Turkistan ; winters in Arabia and the plains of India. 



Sylvia affluis, BIyth, Gat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 187; Hume, Str. 

 F. vii. p. 60 ; i. 197; ii. 332; iii. 272 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 209, No. 582; 

 Murray, Hdblc, ZooL, 8fc. Sind, p. 163. Sylvia curruca, apud. Jerd. B. 

 Lid. ii. p. 209 ; apud. Blf. East. Persia, ii. p. 175. — The Allied Geet 

 Waebler. 



General colour pale slaty or brownish grey ; supercilium indistinct ; 

 wings and tail brownish ; outermost tail feather on each side white on 

 their outer webs ; chin, throat, belly, and under tail-coverts, also 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white, tinged greyish brown on the 

 breast and flanks ; bill and legs brown; irides light brown. 



Length. — 6 inches, wing 2"5, tail 2"26, bill at front 0'51. 



Hab. — Nearly all India and Ceylon, Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, 

 Behar, Deccan, Kutch, Gueerat, Kattiawar, Jodhpore and Sambhur ; also 

 Beloochistan, Persia, S. Afghanistan and Turkistan. 



Sylvia minuscula, Hume, Str. F. i. 198; vii. 58 et seq.; viii, 

 103, 388, 498 ; 8eehohm,Gat. B.Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 20, pi. 1.— Hume's 

 Lesser White-Theoat. 



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