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until some one will take the whole matter in hand and devote a few weeks 
of investigation to show where and what local differences are most pronounced. 
Several such have been hinted at and unsatisfactory species named by naturalists 
with whom the seasonal and individual variations of plumage of C. cursitans do 
not seem to have been sufficiently familiar, and these forms have been re- 
embodied under the old name after broader studies by Mr. Dresser and Dr. 
Sharpe. The specimen separated by Count Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
1875 VII, 663) as C. celebensis does not seem to be a race of C. cursitans, but 
a female or young of the species broadly spoken of as C. exilis: a form with 
which Mr. Buttikofer identifies it (Weber’s Eeise III, 277). If this be so, 
the only evidence of the occurrence of C. cursitans in the Celebes area rested 
for years upon a male specimen in the British Museum , thus identified by 
Walden (1) and Dr. Sharpe (e 2) , for Meyer’s record of the sjjecies from 
Togian (5) we now believe to relate to the next species, C. exilis-, but it has 
recently been found in South and Central Celebes and Peling Id., by the 
Sarasins, Everett, Doherty, and our native hunters. In 1894 it had only 
been recorded three times from Luzon, once (one specimen) from Bohol, once 
from Palawan , not at all from Borneo , and notices of its occurrence in the 
Imsser Sunda Islands, Sumatra and Java are equally hard to find, though there 
is a large series of nests with eggs and birds from Java in the Dresden Museum. 
At Singapore Mr. Kelham found it abundant. In Central China it is mainly 
a migrant: “immense numbers” says Mr. Sty an, “appear in April to breed and 
pass the summer with us”, but in South China (Swatow) Mr. De La Touche 
describes it as a common winter visitant, and it is quite possible that the scanty 
examples which have been obtained in some of the East Indies owe their pre- 
sence there to migration from some part of S. E. Asia, though, on the other 
hand, the specimens of nests in the Dresden Museum prove that the species 
breeds in Java. 
The habits of this little bird are well described by Legge ( 6 ), Hume 
(16), Koenig (d 4, d 5), and others. 
213. CISTICOLA EXILIS (Vig. Horsf.). 
Tawmy-headed Ean-tail Warbler. 
a. Cistieola grayi (1) Wald., Ann. N. H. 1872, IX, 400; (2) id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIII, 117; 
(S) Meyer, J. f. 0. 1873, 405; (4) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, 296. 
b. Cistieola celebensis (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 663; (2) W. Bias., 
J. f. O. 1883, 113, 119. 
c. Cistieola cursitans (]) Meyer (nec Frankl.), Ibis 1879, 146. 
Cistieola exilis (Ij Blittik., Zool.Erg. Weber’s Eeise Ost-Ind. 1893, III, 277 ; (2) M. & Wg., 
Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Xr. 8, p. 13; (3'j iid., ib. 1896, Xr. 1, p. 12; (4) iid., ib. 
1896, Xr. 2, p. 18; (5) Hart., Xov. Zool. 1897, 161. 
“Burong kano kano”, Minaliassa, Xat. Coll. 
The above references bear upon the locality Celebes oiily. 
