120 WARBLER. 



The female differs chiefly in the tail, the middle feathers of which 

 are very little longer than the others, but in both the tail is in shape 

 cuneiform. 



Inhabits China, frequent among the trees, with which the 

 Chinese adorn the courts about their houses ; is very tame, and has 

 an agreeable note. Is common at Bengal, where it is called Toon- 

 toonee. The nest found among the Mango trees, most commonly 

 in shape of a purse, generally composed of two living leaves attached 

 together by fibres, somewhat in the manner expressed in the Indian 

 Zoology, as belonging to the Tailor Warbler, though not with so 

 wonderful a construction ; the hollow space between the two leaves 

 is lined with cotton by way of nest; and the eggs are three in 

 number, whitish, marked with flesh-coloured spots, in length three- 

 fifths of an inch. 



A. — Length five inches. Bill five-eighths of an inch, pale and 

 slender; crown pale rufous ; plumage pale greenish above, beneath 

 white ; wings dusky ; tail cuneiform, two inches and a half long, 

 the two middle feathers very slender, and exceed the others by half 

 an inch at least ; the redundant parts nearly filiform. 



The female is much the same as to colour, but the sides beneath 

 the eyes are marked with obsolete dusky spots ; and the two middle 

 tail feathers do not exceed the others by more than a quarter of an 

 inch. — Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



B — This Variety differs in the general colour of the plumage 

 being rufous, inclining to brown above ; wing coverts and rump 

 pale ash-colour ; quills and tail brown, edges of the feathers pale ; 

 the latter cuneiform, about half the length of the bird ; the two 

 middle feathers but little elongated. 



Inhabits India with the others. — In the collection of Lord 

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