242 F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. [No. 3, 
with paler shafts to the feathers ; a second specimen is paler, being slightly 
olivaceous brown. Wings dull brown, primaries edged with olivaceous 
white, secondaries with pale rufescent ; edge of wing white ; middle tail 
feathers very conspicuously cross barred, the others dark or blackish brown 
with white tips, the outer edge of the outermost feather is wholly white. 
Lores, round the eye and the lower plumage white ; ear-coverts whitish, tinged 
with pale ashy towards their tips ; sides of neck and breast tinged with 
bluish ashy ; sides of belly, the abdomen and lower wing coverts, with ful- 
vescent, and the tibial feathers are slightly rufescent. Bill brown, basal 
half of lower mandible whitish ; legs fleshy, darker on the toes. Wing 2 05 
to 2T ; tail 25 to 2'6 ; tarsus 0'7 ; bill at front 0 42 inch. 
In the third specimen the upper plumage is still paler than in the other 
two, ashy brownish, and the rufescent on the head very slight ; in other 
respects it is exactly the same. Wing 195 ; tail 2 - 45 inch, bill and tarsus 
the same, as in the two previous specimens. The more ashy and little smaller 
bird is probably the female or young, but I had not determined the sexes. 
The birds were very abundant, flying from bush to bush, almost invari- 
ably in company with Chatorhea caudata, and feeding mostly on the ground 
between the bushes. 
Should this bird be Jerdon’s F. Cleghorniee ? (Comp. Ibis, 1867, 
p. 24). It is a trifle smaller than Jerdon’s measurements of j Buchanani, 
but I can see no very perceptible distinctions between specimens of that bird 
in the Museum and those from Kachh. Gray gives F. Cleghorniee , in Hand- 
list, Pt. I, p. 196, as a distinct species, and Blyth says that it differs from 
Buchanani by 1 having the upper parts pale rufescent brown.’ I dare 
say a good series of the birds from the N. West Provinces will easily settle 
this question, but several specimens of Buchanani, which 1 saw from the 
North-West, are paler than the Kachh birds. 
553. Pn v llopnetj ste KAMA, (apud Jerdon). Not common. 
In all birds which I observed, and which are referable to this species, 
[as distinguished from the smaller Calomodyta (? Iduna) agricolensis, 
Hume], the first primary was about 0'7 inch, long, but in some birds 
the third is equal to the fourth, in others the fourth is a trifle longer than 
the third primary, there is, however, no possibility of distinguishing the birds 
either by plumage or size. The roundness of the ridge of the bill towards 
its tip also slightly varies. Wing 2'4 ; tail 2 to 2T5 ; tarsus 075 to 0’77 ; 
bill at front 0'4. 
This species is referred to by Gray (Handlist, I, p. 209) as a synonym 
of Calamodyta (Iduna) calligata, Licht., a Siberian and Eastern European 
species. The identification is very probably correct. 
554. Phylloscopus tkistis. Not common. 
Wing 2'4 ; tail nearly 1‘9, tarsus 0 75 ; bill at front G'33, from nostril 
