. Birds. Birds. 396 stlviidjE. lower plumage white, tinged with very pale buff, especially on the sides of the body; under tail-coverfcs slaty grey, broadly tipped with Figs. 127, 128.âHead and foot of Female. Crown, forehead, and nape brown, and the ear-coverts blackish ; otherwise like the male. Legs and feet slaty-grey; bill blackish brown, slaty at base of lower mandible; iris pale straw or dirty white (Butler). Length about 7; tail 2-9; wing 3-2; tarsus -9; bill from gape "85. The first primary is about -75 iu length, and the second is between the fifth and sixth.
. Birds. Birds. 396 stlviidjE. lower plumage white, tinged with very pale buff, especially on the sides of the body; under tail-coverfcs slaty grey, broadly tipped with Figs. 127, 128.âHead and foot of Female. Crown, forehead, and nape brown, and the ear-coverts blackish ; otherwise like the male. Legs and feet slaty-grey; bill blackish brown, slaty at base of lower mandible; iris pale straw or dirty white (Butler). Length about 7; tail 2-9; wing 3-2; tarsus -9; bill from gape "85. The first primary is about -75 iu length, and the second is between the fifth and sixth. This bird differs from its European representative, S. orphea, in having a much larger bill and paler lower plumage. Distribution. A winter visitor to a great portion of Lidia, from September to April. It inhabits the whole peninsula as far as Trichinopoly on the south and M^nbhoom in Chutia Kagpur on the east. It appears to be confined to the plains in winter. It passes through Grilgit in the spring and autumn migrations, and breeds in Turkestan. 400. Sylvia nana. The Desert Warbler. Curruca nana. Hemp: §â Ehrenb. Symb. Phys., Aves, fol. cc (1833). Sylvia delicatukf Hartl. Ibis, 1859, p. 340, pi. x, fig. 1; Hume, S. F. i, p. 199. Sylvia nana {H. Sf E.), Hume, Cat. no. 683 bis; Doig, S. F. ix, p. 280; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 26; Barnes, Birds Bmn. p. 234. Coloration. Lores and round the eye white; forehead, crown, nape, back, and scapulars fawn-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts rufous; middle tail-feathers rufous, with black shafts; the next two pairs dark brown, margined with rufous; the next pair brown, margined with pale rufous and tipped white; the next white on the outer web, dark brown on the inner with a white tip ; the outermost pair pure white ; wings brown, margined with rufescent; the whole lower plumage very pale huffish white. Iris pale yellow; bill dusky brown above, whitish flesh below; legs and feet straw-yellow {Butler). Length about 5; tail 2; wing 2-3
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