THE RUFOUS GRASS-WARBLER. 
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paler ; the subterminal patches small and indistinct^ frequently altogether 
absent ; wings brown, edged with bright rufous ; sides of the head and 
lower plumage fulvous, darker on the breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; 
thighs dark rufous. In summer the upper plumage is ashy brown, the 
centres o£ the feathers darker, especially on the head ; wings dark brown, 
edged with ashy white ; tail brown, suflused with white as seen from below, 
tipped paler, and with subterminal marks of brown tolerably well defined ; 
sides o£ the head and lower plumage white, tinged with very pale fulvous. 
The young in first plumage are very rufous. 
Length in winter 6 inches, in summer 5 to 5*5 ; tail in winter 2*9, in 
summer 2*4 ; wing 2, tarsus '8, bill from gape '6. The female is about the 
same size, but has the tail generally shorter. 
The Indian Wren- Warbler is said by Mr. Blytli to occur in Arrakan. 
I do not think that Mr. Blyth could have confounded it with the prece- 
ding species, for this latter seems to be very local and confined to Pegu, 
whereas P. inornata has a most extensive range, and is most likely to ex- 
tend down to Arrakan. 
This small Warbler is spread over the Indo-Burmese countries, the 
whole peninsula of India, and the island of Ceylon. 
Its habits and mode of nidification are precisely those of the preceding 
species. 
Genus CISTICOLA, Kaup. 
114. CISTICOLA CISTICOLA. 
THE RUFOUS GRASS-WARBLER. 
Sylvia cisticola, Temm. Mmi. cfOrn. i. p. 228 ; id. PI. Col. 6. fig. 3. Prinia cursi- 
ta,ns, FranM. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118. Cisticola schoenicola, j5onaj:>. Co7?ip. List 
B. Eur. 8f N. Amer. p. 12 5 Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 174 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 343 ; 
id. S. F. i. p. 439; iii. p. 137 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 119 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 158 ; 
David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 256. Salicaria (Cisticola) brunniceps, Temm. 
et Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 134, pi. 20 c. Cisticola omalura, Bl. Cat. B. Mus. 
As. Soc. Beng. p. 145 ; id. J. A. S. B. xx. p. 176. Calamanthella tinnabulans, 
Swinh. Journ. N. China As. Soc. 1859, p. 225. Cisticola fuscicapilla, Wall. 
P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 489. Cisticola munipurensis, Godioin- Austen, P. Z. S. 1874, 
p. 47 ; id. J. A. S. B. xliii. pt. ii. p. 165, pi. ix. tig. 2 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 397, 
viii. p. 101. Cisticola cursitans, Dresser, Birds Europe, iii. p. 3, pi. ; Hume, 
S. F. V. p. 90 ; Hume Sf- Dav. S. F. vi. p. 349 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. lOlj Legge, Birds 
Ceylon, p. 531. Cisticola homalura, Hume, S. F. v. pp. 93, 350, viii. p. 101. 
Description. — Male and female in winter. The whole upper plumage 
bright rufous, each feather, except those of the rump and upper tail- 
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