1872.] F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Raclih. 241 
greyish towards the tips, the grey colour also tinging the sides of neck. 
Lower plumage very soft, luteo-rufescent whitish, white on chin and ab- 
domen ; tigh coverts and lower tail coverts pale rufous. Tail above with 
rather close, hut not very distinct, dull cross bars, all except the two centre 
feathers with an indistinct subterminal dark band and a well developed dull 
white tip. Bill above dark brown, paler towards the edges and below ; feet 
pale fleshy. 
Length about 7 inches ; wing 205 to 2'20 ; tail 2'75 ; tarsus 0 75 ; 
bill at front O' 12, from gape 0'62 inch. (These measurements are taken 
from two carbolised specimens.) 
This is undoubtedly the bird which Blyth first noticed as distinct from 
2). syhaticus, naming it subsequently 2). Jerdoni , but uniting it afterwards 
with D. longicaudatus. Jerdon (Birds, India, II, p. ISO) doubts the cor- 
rectness of this identification, and very properly so, I think. I have carefully 
compared the type specimen, presented by Jerdon, and I have no doubt that 
it is a distinct and good species. The type measures : wing 21, tail 2'6, 
tarsus 0'72 inch., (bill imperfect). This type specimen exactly agrees in 
plumage with those from Kachh, and there is another specimen received since 
by the Indian Museum from Nagpur, very likely presented by W. T. 
Blanford. It is also exactly of the same size, as the type. 
I found the species not unfrequently between low bushes, but secured 
only two specimens, which I prepared with carbolic acid. Mr. Hume kindly 
informed me that he named the bird 2)rgmoipus rnfescens, noting the 
distinctions from allied Indian species.* 
544. Duyiioirrs loxgicaudatcs. 
In two specimens shot on 26th December, the primaries are edged with 
very pale rufous. There is no dark subterminal band on the tail, but all 
except the middle feathers pass into albescent towards the tips, which are 
conspicuously narrowed in one specimen. Lores, supercilium and round the 
eye white. The two specimens were procured in moderately high grass at 
the edge of a tank near the village Wandra, in the S. Western part of 
Kachh. Wing 2'85 and 2 95 ; tail 2'4 and 2'8 ; tarsus 0'75, bill at front 
0-42 inch. . 
551. Feaniclinia Bttchanani ? (an Cleghomies Jerdon) . 
Out of three specimens shot in November and December, in one the 
upper coloration is rufescent brown and the head above almost quite rufous 
* Since my account was written, Mr Hume’s description of the bird appeared 
in ‘Ibis,’ vol. ii, No. 6, for 1872, p. 110 . A full account of the bird will be found in 
that place. Mr. Hume gives the wing of a male as 2'62 inches, and the tail 3'38 
tarsus 0'95, and bill at front 0'5 inch. Other specimens are smaller, particularly the 
young, and the females, ho says, are always much smaller than the males. (Sentb 
1872 . ' 
