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outer feathers ; tibial plumes rust-coloured, the tarsi and toes red- 

 brown, and bill dusky above, the lower mandible pale. The middle 

 tail-feathers are not elongated in the only specimen under examina- 

 tion. Length about four inches and a half, the wing an inch and thir- 

 teen-sixteenths, and tail one and five-eighths ; bill to gape three-quar- 

 ters of an inch, and tarse five-eighths. Common at Malacca. 



Prinia, Horsfield. Of this genus, I have no species to describe 

 additional to those noticed in Vol. XIII, p. 376, but may remark that 

 Mr. Jerdon considers that two or three are at present confounded 

 under Pr. inornata : considerable variation, however, certainly obtains 

 in individuals shot out of the same flock ; and it may be noted that 

 this bird extends its range into Arracan. Pr, Franklinii, nobis, (v. 

 macroura, Franklin, nee Latham), being the Sylvia longicaudata of 

 Tickell, J. A. S. II, 576, will now bear that as its specific name : 

 and Pr. cursitans, Franklin, as I am informed by Mr. Strickland, " is 

 decidedly congeneric with the European Cisticola schcenicola, but dif- 

 fers in being more rufous, &c. I have compared them," he adds, and it 

 may be further noticed that the cursitans is common in Lower Bengal.* 



Neornis, Hodgson. This name was applied by Mr. Hodgson to my 

 Culicipeta (J. A. S. XII, 968 J, but he has since referred to it two 

 alleged species as aberrant representatives of the form, which appear 

 to me to have an obvious claim to typify a distinct genus, in deno- 

 mination of which I propose that the above name should be retained. 

 General form of Prinia^ but with the bill and the colouring of Phyllos- 

 copus, and long hair-like rictal setce. 



N. Jlavo/ivacea, Hodgson. " Above olive-green ; below and the eye- 

 brow, luteous-yellow [dull pale yellowish]. Length five inches ; bill 

 half an inch ; tail two inches and three-eighths ; wing two and five- 

 sixteenths ; tarse five-sixteenths ; central toe and nail five-eighths ; hind 

 nine-sixteenths." Hodgson's MSS. Bill dusky, base of lower mandible 

 pale ; legs brown, the tarse pale externally. Nepal. 



N. cacharensis, Hodgson. " Above luteous-olive ; below buff; eye- 

 brow pale. Length four inches and three-quarters; bill nine- six- 

 teenths ; wing two inches : tarse seven-eighths ; central toe and nail 



* Since the above was written, I have seen three specimens of Pr. socialis from 

 Agra, which, though similar in plumage, are smaller than one sent by Mr. Jerdon 

 from S. India, and have the bill considerably smaller. — A species very closely allied 

 to (if indeed different from) Pr. sylvatica, Jerdon, has also been received from Java. 



