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wliich render it practically impossible to draw a clear line between them and 
those families and the Tmeliidae, and it is hard to say what good purpose is 
served by upholding them all as families. 
In Wallace’s “Geographical Distribution of Animals” 1876, II, pp. 256 — 260, 
Canon Tristram divides the Sylviidae into 7 subfamilies, of which three occur 
in Celebes. The Drymoecinae^ to which Cisticola and Phyllergates belong, have 
long shanks and fan-tails, often inhabiting scrub and grass; the Calamoherpinae, 
pre-eminently the Keed-Warblers, including Acrocephalus and Locustella\ the 
Phylloscopinae , more arboreal in habits, though nesting on or near the ground, 
including Phylloscopus and, perhaps, Cryptolopha. 
GENUS CISTICOLA Kaup. 
Bill not notched, shorter than the cranium, two rictal bristles; tail of 12 
feathers, fan-shaped; wing rounded, 1®*^ quill small, less than half the length of 
the 2”'^, the 2“^ as long as the secondaries, IT** — 6'"’^ the longest ; tarsus long, longer 
than the middle toe; in colour, as the feet, flesh-colour, yellowish or reddish. 
Birds of very small size, to be found in the open, in long scrubby grass, 
and such like; ranging from Africa, Madagascar, Southern Europe, temperate 
lex parte?) and tropical Asia, through the East India xirchipelago to Australia. 
212. CISTICOLA CURSITANS (Frkl.). 
Rufous Fan-tailed AVarbler. 
a. Sylvia cisticola (1) Temm., Man. d’Orn. 1820, I, 228. 
b. Prinia cursitans (1) Frank!., P. Z. 8. 1831, 118. 
c. Salicaria cisticola (I) Gld., B. Eur. 1837, pi. 113. 
d. Cisticola schoenicola Bp. (1) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 256; (2) Seeh., Ibis 1884, 
261; (3) Guill, Ibis 1888, 110; (4) Koenig, J. f. 0. 1888, 193; (5) id., ib. 
1892, 392. 
Cisticola cursitans (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, V U.1, 64; (II) Dresser, B. Eur. ID, 3, pi. 
96 (1877), '(3) Hume & Davis., Str. F. VI, 1878, 349; (4) Tweedd., P. Z. 8. 1878, 
708, 710; (5) Hume, Str. F. AHH, 1879, 64; (6) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 531; 
(7) AVardl. Rams., Tweedd. Orn. Works 1881, App. 658; (8) Reid, Str. F. X, 
1881, 46; Kelham, Ibis 1881, 516; (9) Oates, t. c. 1882, 219; (10) Davi- 
son, t. c. 1882, 309; 1883, 391; (11) Vorderm., N. T. Xed. Ind. 1883, XEIH, 97; 
fl2) Ward!. Rams., Ibis 1886, 160; (13) Tait, Ibis 1887, 95; (XIIP*^) Oigl. & 
Manz., Icon. Avif. Itab, pi. XXXVHI (1888); (14) Lilford, Uns 1889, 318; (15) 
Tristr., Oat. Coll. B. 1889, 156; (16) Oates ed. Hume’s Xests & Eggs Ind. B. I, 
1889, 236; (17) Oates, Fa.un. Brit. Ind. 1890, I, 374; (18) Heine & Rcliw., Xo- 
mencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 29; Vorderm., Xotes Leyd. Mus. 1891, 128; (20) id., 
N. T. Ned. Lid. 1891, L, 496; (21) Rcliw., J. f. 0. 1892, 56; (22) M. & AVg., Abb. 
Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 12; (23) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 18. 
e. Cisticola cisticola (1) Oates, B. Br. Burraah 1883, I, 115; (2) Sharpe, Oat. B. VH, 1883, 
259; (3) Seeb., Ibis 1884, 40; (4) Styan, Ibis 1887,220; (5) Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, 
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