Genus CISTICOLA*. 
Bill more comiiressed than in JJrymwca, high at the base, the culmen moderately curved ; 
rictal bristles small and fine. Wings ample, with the secondaries much curved, the 1st quill less 
than half the length of the 4th, 5th, and 6th, which are snbequal and longest, the 2nd shorter 
than the 7th, which is slightly less than the 6th. Tail of 12 feathers, and not exceeding the 
wing, the lateral feathers graduated. Legs long ; the tarsus exceeding the middle toe and its 
claw, and shielded with broad smooth scutse. Toes delicate ; hind toe and claw large. 
Plumage above striated. Nape furnished with short hair-plumes. 
CISTICOLA CUESITANS. 
(THE COMMON GRASS-WAEBLER.) 
Prinia cursitans, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118; Jerdon, 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 6 (1847). 
Cisticola schoenicola, Bonap. Geogr. and Comp. List B. of Eur. p. 12 (1838); Jerdon, B. of 
Ind. ii. p. 174 (1863) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1871, p. 133 ; id. B. of Egypt, p. 97 (1872) ; Holdsw. 
P. Z. S. 1872, p. 465 ; Hume, Str. Eeath. 1873, p. 439 ; id. Nests and Eggs, ii. p. 343 
(1873); id. Str. Eeath. 1874, p. 235, et 1875, p. 137 ; Butler & Hume, t.c. p. 481 ; 
Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 91 (1875). 
Cisticola cursitans (Frankl.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 457 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p. 145 (1849); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 324 (1854); Layard, 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 262 (in pt.) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 90; 
Davison & Hume, B. of Tenass.- ibid. 1878, p. 349. 
Cisticola omalura, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 145 (1849) ; id. J. A. S. B. 1851, xx. p. 176 ; 
Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 120 (1852) (in pt.) ; Layard, ut supra, p. 262 (in pt.) ; 
Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 302 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 21. 
Prymoeca cisticola. Von Heuglin, Ibis, 1869, p. 132. 
Cisticola homalura, Hume, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 93. 
The Moimtain Grass-Warl)ler{G. omalura)-, The Grass-Warhler {C. cursitans), Kelaart; The 
Fan-tatlWarhler, Shelley ; Bou-fesito, Moorish, lit. “ Father of eloquence ;” Cierra-puho, 
Tin-Tin (from its note), Spanish ; Bolsicon, Spanish (Saunders). GhasJca phutki, Flind., 
lit. “ Grass-Prinia ; ” Kher ghusa. Hind, at Bhagulpore (Jerdon); Chittu kuruvi, lit. 
“ Small bird,” Ceylonese Tamils. 
Adult male. Length 4-0 to 4‘(j inches ; wing 2-0 to 2-3 ; tail 1'3 to 1-6 (lateral feather from 0-3 to 0-5 shorter than 
central); tarsus 0’7 to 0'8 ; mid toe and claw 0'59 to 0'65; bill to gape 0'55 to O'Gl. 
* This peculiar genus, on account of its short 1st and long 2nd quill, and likewise its striated plumage, appears to 
form a link between the Drymoecine division of the Tiinaliid® and the Sylviidse, which latter family I propose to place 
next in order to the present. Notwithstanding these characters, the rounded form of the wing, the lengthened 
secondaries, the stout legs and feet, and the graduated tail ally Cisticola to the Drymoecinae, in which subfamily Jerdon 
jdaced it. 
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