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BIEDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
This species is found in brusliwood and the outskirts o£ woods and 
forests where there is a plentiful undergrowth of grass. I have always 
found it abundant in such localities. It breeds throughout the rains and in 
August I found a nest. The bird had sewn together two large leaves by 
the edges, and in the receptacle thus formed had made a pretty nest of fine 
grass. There were three eggs, pale blue spotted with reddish brown. The 
nest is generally placed about two feet from the ground. 
117. CISTICOLA BEAVANI. 
BEAVAN^S GRASS-WARBLER. 
Prinia beavani, Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 551 ; id. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 119 ; Hume, 
S. F. iii. p. 136 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 158 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 349 ; Hmne, 
S. F. viii. p. 101. Prinia rufescens, Bl. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 456 ; Bl 8f Wald. 
B. Burm. p, 119; Hume, S, F. iii. p. 136; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 640; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 101. 
Description. — Male and female. Summer plumage. Lores brown ; a 
streak from the nostrils over the eye white; forehead, crown and nape 
ashy brown; back, wing-coverts, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts 
rufous-brown ; tail more rufous, tipped with white and each feather with a 
large subterminal spot of brown ; wings brown edged with rufous-brown, 
and the tertiaries wholly of this colour ; sides of the head ashy ; lower 
plumage white washed with buff, brighter on the flanks.. 
Winter pluvnage. The forehead and crown become the same colour as the 
back, and the tail is much longer. 
Iris reddish brown ; bill horn-colour, pinkish at base ; legs and claws 
pinkish ; mouth flesh-colour. 
Length in summer 4 inches, in winter 4*6; tail in summer 1'5, in 
winter 2*1 ; wing 1'65 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from gape '6. The female is 
rather smaller. 
Prinia rufescens, Blyth, of which I procured specimens in the Arrakan 
hills, is nothing but the young bird of this species, characterized by a very 
rufous tinge of plumage ; the head is the same colour as the back, like the 
adult in winter plumage. 
Beavan^s Grass-Warbler is found over every portion of Pegu and 
Tenasserim. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it on the Karin hills at 
2000 feet elevation. I found it common at the foot of the Arrakan hills 
on the eastern side, and it is probably abundant over the whole of that 
Division. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese coimtries to the Bhootan Doars^ 
