HODGSON^S HILL-WARBLER. 
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Sikhim and Nipal. It has also been procured at Klang in the Malay 
peninsula. 
This Warbler is abundant in all well-wooded parts of the country where 
there is a fair undergrowth of grass. It is more abundant in thick forests 
than elsewhere. I have found the nest in June and July. Both the nest 
and eggs are similar to those of the preceding species. 
Genus HOREITES, Hodgs, 
118. HOREITES FORTIPES. 
HODGSON^S HILL-WARBLER. 
Horornis fortipes, Hodgs. in Chxiifs Zool. Misc. p. 82 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 162 ; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 329; Brooks, S. F. viii. p. 475. Drymoica brevicaudata, 
Bl. J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 459. Horornis assimilis, Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Ne^nd 
Coll. Hodgs. p. 30 ; Brooks, S. F. x. p. 170. Horeites robustipes, Swinh. Ibis, 
1866, p. 398 ; Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 264. Neornis assimilis, Bl. Ibis, 
1867, p. 22 ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xliii. pt. ii. p. 167 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 105 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 351. Neornis brevicaudatus, Anders. 
Yunnan Exped. p. 623. Schoenicola fortipes, Hume, S. F. viii. p. 101. 
Cettia fortipes, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. Mus. v. p. 136. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage rich ruddy 
brown ; the lores and ear-coverts rather darker ; the inner webs of the 
wing- quills plain brown; eye-streak brownish yellow^ rather indistinct; 
whole lower plumage huffish brown, richer on the flanks and vent and 
paling on the chin, throat and centre of abdomen ; axillaries pale yellow. 
Length 4-5 inches, tail 2*2, wing 2*2, tarsus '85, bill from gape '62. 
This bird bears a close general resemblance to Herbivocula fuscata and 
H. schivarziy but may be recognized by its rounded Timeliine wing and by 
its tail of ten feathers. Horeites pallidus and H. brunnescens appear to 
be distinct species, although Mr. Seebohm treats them as synonyms of 
H. fortipes. {Of. S. F. viii. pp. 379, 475.) 
Hodgson^s Hill- Warbler was procured in Karennee by Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsav. It is not known to occur elsewhere in British Burmah. 
Dr. Anderson met with it in the hills east of Bhamo, and Col. Godwin- 
Austen in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal. Mr. Hodgson procured it in 
Nipal, and it extends to China. 
Nothing is on record about its habits. It is probably a resident species 
wherever it occurs. 
