THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



[SECOND SERIES.] 

 No. 87. MARCH 1855. 



XV. — A Monograph of the Indian species of Phylloscopus and its 

 immediate affines. By Edward Blyth*. 



There is no group of birds more difficult to the student of 

 Indian ornithology than the very extensive series of small Bee- 

 fins, or " Warblers," known to the French as Pouillots, and in 

 parts of England by the name of Pettychaps. It is exemplified 

 in Europe by four well-known species f; and as an avis rarissima 

 in Europe, the common Indian Motacilla proregulus, Pallas {Re- 

 gulus modestus, Gould), which strictly appertains to the series 

 under review, has been obtained in Dalmatia and in Britain ; 



* From the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. 6, 1854. 

 t 1. Phylloscopus sibilatrix ; Motacilla sibilatrix, L.; Sylvia sylvicola, 

 Latham. Type of Sibilatrix^ Kaup. 



2. Ph. Bonelli; Sylvia Bonelli, Vieillot; S. Nattereri, Temminck. 



3. Ph. trochilus ; Motacilla trochilus, L. ; Sylvia fitis, Bec^^^em ; also, 

 according to M. Degland, S. icterina, Temminck (nee Vieillot) ; S. flavi- 

 ventris, Vieillot; S. angusticauda, Gerbe; and S. tamaricis, Crespigny. 



4. Ph. rufus ; Curruca rufa, Brisson ; Sylvia collybita, Vieillot ; S. loquax, 

 Herbert ; and by the older British ornithologists erroneously assigned to 

 Motacilla hippolais, h. 



In addition to these four, in N. Africa, Dr. Riippell describes — 



Ph. umbrovirens ; Sylvia umbrovirens, Riippell (described but not figured 



in his Neuen Wirbelthieren, Vogel, p- 112), From Abyssinia. 



Ph. brevicaudatus ; Sylvia brevicaudata, Riippell, Atlas, t. 35. From 



Kordofan. 



Another that will probably have to be added to the European fauna is — 

 Ph. brevirostris ; Sylvia brevirostris, Strickland, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 98. 



Procured at Smyrna. Differs from Ph. rufus in its greater size, and from 



Ph. trochilus " in the shortness of the beak and the dark colour of the legs." 

 Lastly, two species are briefly described in Dr. Horsfield's Catalogue of 

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