160 Notices and Descriptions of various [May, 



neatli, and the subterminal dusky band tends to contract into a medial 

 spot on each tail-feather. Length of wing under two inches, of middle 

 tail-feathers two and a quarter, bill to gape barely five-eighths, and 

 tarse three-quarters of an inch. A specimen sent by Mr. Jerdon with 

 the name sericea, I take to be the young of this ; distinguished by the 

 looser texture of its feathers, and by its general much paler colouring : 

 also from Southern India. 



7. Dr.fusca, (Hodgson,) P. Z. S. 1835, p. 29 : .Prinia inomata 

 of Bengal, Nepal, &c, apud nos, passim. Hab. also Arracan. Plumage 

 altogether more fulvescent than in the preceding species, and less firm 

 in texture ; with the tail-feathers much browner, and not so strongly 

 marked at the tips : all the wing-feathers broadly edged with rufous- 

 brown, and tail tinged with the same. Inhabits likewise the Midna- 

 pore district. 



8. Dr. Buchanani, nobis ; altered from rufifrons, Franklin, XIII, 

 3/6: Prinia brunnifrons, Hodgson, Ann. Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 19 ; 

 probably Sylvia longicauda, var. A, of Latham. Nepal, Upper Bengal, 

 Southern India. 



9. Dr. lepida, nobis, XIII, 376. During an excursion up the 

 river, I obtained several specimens (and observed many more) of a 

 strongly marked species, which appears to be this one, so far as I can 

 identify it from comparison with the injured Scinde specimen. Length 

 four inches and three-quarters to five and a quarter ; the tail varying 

 from two and one-eighth to two and five-eighths, with its outermost fea- 

 thers from an inch to one and a quarter less ; alar expanse five inches 

 and a quarter to five and a half; closed wing an inch and three-quar- 

 ters ; bill to gape half an inch, or a trifle more ; tarse five-eighths of an 

 inch. Irides bright yellowish-brown : bill plumbeous, paler (and some- 

 times carneous) below ; legs pale carneous, with a faint tinge of yellow. 

 General colour light olive-grey above, each feather having a mesial 

 dusky streak, broader on those of the crown and back : wings light 

 dusky-brown, the feathers margined with olive-grey : and tail through- 

 out distinctly banded above, with narrow transverse duskyish lines ; 

 below pale, with whitish tips, and a subterminal dusky band to each 

 feather : the under-parts throughout are greyish-white, with lores and a 

 slight supercilium of the same. This bird inhabits low scrub, inter- 

 mixed with tufts of coarse sedgy grass, growing in sandy places by the 



