170 Mr. E. Blyth on the Indian Phylloscopi. 



2^ in. ; its first primary | in.*, and the second not -^^y i^- shorter 

 than the third, which exceeds the sixth, and nearly or quite (in 

 different specimens) equals the fourth and fifth : tail 1 1 to If in., 

 even. An unusually large specimen measured 4| by 7 in. ; wing 

 2\ in. : tail If in. : bill to gape nearly f in. : tarse \^ in. Irides 

 dark. Upper mandible dusky, the lower yellow except at tip ; 

 and legs rather pale brown, without any plumbeous tinge. Bill 

 nearly as much compressed as in Regulus. Plumage, above 

 olive-green, brightest on the rump, wings and tail : crown dusky, 

 with a pale mesial line, sometimes well defined, but in new plu- 

 mage not very distinct ; and in much worn or abraded plumage 

 it often disappears altogether, and the upper parts are then 

 dingy grayish-brown, with scarcely a tinge of green : two con- 

 spicuous yellowish- white bars on the wing, the hinder more 

 broad ; and behind this is a dark patch, corresponding to the 

 black seen in Regulus : tertiaries conspicuously margined with 

 whitish (as more or less in Regulus) y and secondaries and some 

 of the primaries slightly tipped with the same : axillaries, with 

 the fore part of the wing underneath, pale yellow : supercilia and 

 lower parts greenish-albescent. 



Common in Lower Bengal, where a few perhaps breed ; but 

 the great majority retire to the mountains for that purpose f. As 

 an exceedingly great rarity, it has been met with in Dalmatia and 

 in England. Habits as in other species of Phjlloscopus, and not 

 (as in Regulus) gregarious : song-note nearly similar to that of 

 Ph, sibilatrixy but considerably weaker. 



13. Phylloscopus chloronotus. 



Abrornis chloronotus, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82; G. R. Gray, 

 * Appendix to Catalogue of Specimens presented by Mr. Hodgson to 

 the British Museum/ p. 152 ; v. Regulus modestus apud Hodgson. 



Resembles the last, but is smaller, with bill conspicuously 

 shorter and darker-coloured, and the rump pale canary-yellow, 

 strongly contrasting with the hue of the back ; the median coro- 

 nal line much more conspicuous, and the pale margins of the 

 tertiaries less so. Its size is that of the European Regulus 

 cristatus. 



Length 3J in., or a trifle more : wing 1| to 2 in. ; its first pri- 

 mary -f-Q in., the second \ in. shorter than the third, which does 

 not equal the fourth and fifth : bill to gape about ^ in., and 

 tarse f in. : tail \\ in. to If in. Upper mandible blackish, the 

 lower pale except towards tip. Legs pale. In other respects 



* In one only, of several specimens, f in. 



t A reputed nest, taken near Calcutta, is described J. A. S. xii. note to 

 p. 965. 



