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eighths, having apparently been fleshy-white. This young bird (for 

 such it certainly is, whatever its species), was procured from the jungle 

 skirting the base of the eastern ghauts of the peninsula. Dr. sylvatica 

 inhabits the Neilgherries, but I believe is not confined to them.* 



The Society has received a species from Java almost exactly similar to 

 Dr. sylvatica, but smaller, having the wing but two inches and an 

 eighth, instead of from two and three-eighths to two and a half: the 

 bill, however, is fully as long, or longer than in most specimens of Dr. 

 sylvatica, and the tips of the tail-feathers have a much broader and 

 more conspicuous dusky band, as seen from beneath, with a narrower 

 whitish terminal margin. 



4. Dr. brevicaudata, nobis, n. s. Length five inches and a quarter, 

 of wing two and an eighth, and tail but two inches, its outermost fea- 

 thers half an inch shorter ; bill to gape five-eighths, and tarse three- 

 quarters of an inch. Colour plain uniform greenish olive-brown above, 

 inclining to tawny towards the tail ; paler and albescent below, passing 

 to olive on the flanks : the anterior third of the under surface of the 

 wing nearly pure white. Bill dusky, and legs pale. From Darjeeling. 



5. Dr. Jerdoni, nobis : described as a new species of Prinia in XI, 

 883, but regarded as a variety of Dr. inornata in XIII, 376. Inter- 

 mediate to Dr. sylvatica and Dr. inornata (vera) of Southern India ; 

 also nearly allied to the Javanese species, which it resembles in size, 

 but differs in its subterminal dusky tail-band not being nearly so broad, 

 and essentially resembling that of Dr. sylvatica. Except in being 

 smaller, I can detect no available distinction of this species from Dr. 

 sylvatica ; i. e. distinctions which I might predicate as constant : but 

 two specimens before me correspond exactly in dimensions ; having the 

 wing two inches and an eighth, middle tail-feathers two and a half, bill 

 to gape five-eighths, and tarse three-quarters. Inhabits Southern 

 India. 



6. Dr. inornata, (Sykes.) This is smaller, again, but other- 

 wise similar, except that the tail-feathers are more albescent under- 



* I recently obtained a single specimen, about 40 miles to the N. W. of.Midnapore. 

 It was in an open bushy place, near tree-jungle ; where also were many of the Chrysom- 

 ma hypoleucos. Its note was a long-continued and rapid repetition of the sound twit. 

 Length six inches and a half, by seven inches in spread of wing ; closed wing two inches 

 and a quarter; tail three and one-eighth, Legs carneous-brown , irides deep amber as 

 usual throughout the group 



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