458 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



(or sometimes rufous) on the crown, where the feathers have usually 

 somewhat paler margins ; the lores, under-parts, and more or less deve- 

 loped eye-streak, pale ; and the graduating tail-feathers have a subter- 

 minal dusky bar and pale tip, in general distinctly traceable, but less 

 strongly marked and contrasting than in the Prinice and Cistie&lee. 

 They inhabit low scrubby bush-cover in the open country, rather than 

 high bush-jungle, to which the Prinite chiefly resort ; or long grass, 

 the favourite abode of the Cisticolce : and the nest is of ordinary con- 

 struction and open above, neither formed by sewing a few grass stems and 

 leaves together, in the manner of the Cisticolce, nor broad leaves, like 

 the Orthotomi and (so far as known) the Prinia. At the head of the 

 Indian species may be placed 



1. Dr. criniger ; Suya criniger, Hodgson, As. Res. XIX, 183. 

 Nepal. 



2. Dr. longicaudala ? Sylvia lonyicaudata (?), Tickell, II, 5/6 : 

 Prinia macroura, Franklin (nee Sylvia macroura, Lath.), altered to 

 Pr. FranJclinii, nobis, in XIII, 376. (Non vidi.) Hab. Indian pen- 

 insula, probably to the northward chiefly. 



3. Dr. sylvatica, Jerdon. A specimen of what appears to me as the 

 young of this bird, has been forwarded on loan by Mr. Jerdon with the 

 specific name neglect a.* The plumage has the unsubstantial texture 

 characteristic of immaturity ; and the general colour is not so dark, the 

 crown being of the same faintly rufescent brown as the rest of theupper- 

 parts,f the rufescent edgings of the wing-coverts and primaries are more 

 developed, and the tail is much shorter ; its middle feathers measuring 

 but two inches and a half, and the three or four outer tail-feathers having 

 broader but ill-defined dull whitish tips, and no decided indication of the 

 subterminal dusky band (which I also find to be the case in certain unshed 

 tail-feathers of a specimen of Dr. Jerdoni, while those that had been 

 moulted resemble the corresponding feathers of Dr. sylvatica). Entire 

 under-parts of the same uniform clear fulvous- white. Length of wing- 

 two inches and a quarter ; of bill to gape five-eighths, and tarse seven- 



* It is described by Mr. Jerdon as Prinia neglecta, in the Madr. Journ. No. XXXI, 

 130 ; being- altogether different from Dr. Jerdoni, of which that gentleman forwarded a 

 second specimen by the same opportunity. 



t In the young of Dr. Buchanuni, the rufous crown is much lew marked than in the 

 adult. 



