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on each side narrowly bordered with white, the ante-penultimate 

 less so. 



This pretty species we have only seen from the Deyra Doon 

 and from S. India. In colouring it approximates the groups 

 Reguloides and Abrornis ; but the remarkable firmness of its 

 wings and tail is peculiar, and prohibitive of its association with 

 either. 



The next three species (constituting the subgroup Reguloides, 

 nobis) have, like the last, a pale medial streak on the crown, and 

 they greatly approximate the genus Regulus in figure and pro- 

 portions, and even in colouring (minus the developed crest) j but 

 their habits are those of other Phylloscopi, 



11. Phylloscopus trochiloides. 



Acanthiza trochiloides, Sundevall(1837). 



Fhyllopneuste reguloides, nobis, J. A. S. xi. 191, xii. 963 (nee reguloides 

 apud Hodgson). 



Length of a male 4|^ in. by 7^^ in. : wing 2| in. ; its first pri- 

 mary 1^ in,, and the second f in. shorter than the third, which 

 equals the fifth and is a little shorter than the fourth ; but, in 

 some, these three are equal : tail IJ in., even : bill to gape fin., 

 or nearly so : tarse y^ in. Length of a female 4^ by 6 J in. ; 

 wing 2y^^ in. ; and tail If in. Irides dark. Upper mandible 

 dusky, the lower yellow ; and legs yellowish -brown tinged with 

 plumbeous. Plumage, above dull green, a little infuscated, with 

 two conspicuous yellowish-white bars on the wing, formed by the 

 tips of the greater and lesser coverts : below albescent-greenish, 

 a little tinged with yellow : a broad yellowish- white or pale yel- 

 low supercilium ; and above this a broad dusky band, leaving the 

 middle line of the crown dull green like the back, but paling at 

 the occiput ; below the supercilium the colour is also dusky : 

 axillaries, with the fore part of the wing underneath, yellow j and 

 the outermost and penultimate tail-feathers have a narrow whitish 

 margin to their inn«r web. 



Inhabits the sub-Himalayas, and visits Lower Bengal in some 

 abundance during the cold season. We have obtained one so 

 late as March 15th in the vicinity of Calcutta. 



12. Phylloscopus proregulus. 



Motacilla proregulus, Pallas. 



Regulus modestus, Gould ; and, in abraded plumage, R. inomatus, nobis, 



J. A. S. xi. 19, and Ph. montanus, Hutton, nobis, Catal. no. 1105. 

 Fhyllopneuste nitidus, Hodgson, G. R. Gray. 



Length generally about 4 to 4^ in. by 6 to 6 J in. across : wing 



