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Length. — 5 inolieSj wing 3'7, tail 2'7, tarsi 8'5. Mr. Brooks in the 

 "Ibis" for 1877, page 206, states that he finds on comparison his 

 Anthus neglectus identical with Swinhoe's Blackistonii, but in regard to 

 the dimensions he observes : — " The total length given by Mr. Swinhoe 

 is clearly wrong ; so also with regard to length of wing. I have shot 

 about forty examples, and the greatest total length observed was &'Z, 

 the longest wing 3'4, longest tail 2'65." 



The following are dimensions of some of his examples: — 



Wing. Tail. Bill at front. Tarsus. 



1 Male. 



- a 



3 Female. 



4 



5 



. 9 

 10 



11 



12 



Hah. — China; in India, Sind, Punjab and N. W. Provinces and 

 Afghanistan ; frequenting extensive swamps. A winter visitant. 



Gen. Corydalla. — Vigors. 



Bill stout ; tarsi moderately long ; tertiaries generally intermediate 

 in length between the 4th and 5fch primaries j hind claw elongated. 



Corydalla rufulus, Viell. Gal. des. Ois. t. 161; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 232, No. 600 ; Hume, Str. F. vol. i. 358 ; vi. 366 ; viii. p. 386 ; 

 Murray, Hdblc, Zool., Sfc, Sind, p. 168. Cichlops ubiquitarius, 

 Hodgson. — The Indian Tit-Laek. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars and upper tail-coverts olive brown, the 

 feathers with dark mesial streaks ; rump unstreaked pale olive ; super- 

 cilium fulvous white ; chin white ; throat, breast, and rest of under 

 surface, including the under wing-coverts, fulvous white, deeper on the 

 breast and sides of the throat, the feathers of which are centred darker ; 

 primaries, secondaries, tertiaries and wing-coverts brown; the primaries 

 shghtly paler brown and edged externally with fulvous white ; the 

 secondaries edged with light olive brown and tipped whitish ; the 

 tertiaries broadly edged externally with pale olive or fawn brown, all, 

 except the innermost tertiaries, fulvous and basally whitish on their inner 

 webs ; tail dark brown, the two centre feathers shorter than the 

 others, pale brown and margined narrowly with pale olive ; the outer- 

 most feathers on each side white, except a narrow margin on the inner 

 web, which is brown ; the next feather also white, with a dark shaft, 

 and a wider brown margin on the inner web ; bill dusky, yellowish at 

 base of lower mandible; irides brown; legs pale yellowish brown. 



