Mr. E. Blytli on the Indian Phylloscopi. 173 



dusky above^ below yellow or amber-coloured ; and tarse pale. 

 Plumage, above dull olive-green, brighter on the rump and 

 margins of the wing and tail-feathers, those of the primaries 

 yellowish, and a pale rufescent bar across the wing : two broad 

 black streaks on the crown, and between them a dull greenish 

 streak flanked with ashy : supercilia also dull green ; but the 

 orbital feathers are yellow ; and the entire under-parts are pale 

 dull yellow, or albescent-yellowish, becoming of a deeper yellow 

 on the belly and lower tail-coverts : tail having its three outer 

 feathers wholly white, save the terminal half of their outer web, 

 together with the tip of the inner web of the ante-penultimate 

 and slightly of the penultimate. 



Inhabits the Nepal and Sikkim Himalaya*. 



4. CULICIPETA SCHISTICEPS. 



Abromis schisticeps, Hodgson, nobis, J. A. S. xiv. 592. 

 Phyllopneuste xanthoschistos, Hodgson, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 82 

 (undescribed) ; G. R. Gray, * Appendix to Catalogue,' p. 151. 



Length 4^ in. : of wing 2^ in., with primaries as in C. Burkii: 

 tail 1| in.: bill to gape f in.; and tarse | in. Bill dusky 

 above, below amber-coloured ; and feet apparently pale brownish- 

 plumbeous. Plumage, above pale ashy, passing to greenish- 

 yellow on the rump, wings and tail : below, with the cheeks and 

 lower half of the ear-coverts, wholly bright yellow : a whitish- 

 gray superc ilium and narrow medial streak upon the crown, and 

 two broad ill-defined lateral streaks of rather a more dusky gray 

 than that of the back : outermost and penultimate tail-feathers 

 only, white on their inner webs. The young have looser plumage 

 and all the colours less intense. 



This appears to be very common throughout the sub-Hima- 

 layan territories, and is likewise met with in Arakan ; but it 

 appears never to descend from the hills. According to Capt. 

 Hutton, it is a common species at 5000 ft. elevation, and com- 



* Mr. G. R. Gray suggests that this may be the young of his Abr. 

 erochroa, Hodgson, which he thus describes : — 



" Length 5 in. ; bill from gape ^ in. ; tarse f in. : wdngs under 2^ in. 

 Upper surface olive-green ; a streak over each eye from the nostrils, under 

 surface and lower part of back, yellowish-white, brightest on the back 

 [rump ?] and vent : wings with the tips of the greater coverts broadly 

 margined with rufous-white: quills brownish-black, narrowly margined 

 with yellowish-green : tail slaty-brown, margined with yellowish-green, the 

 outer feathers principally white." 



We suspect that this description merely refers to a fine specimen of C. 

 pulchra ; and may remark that the present is the only species of the series 

 of which the Society possesses but an indifferent specimen. Of the rest, C. 

 castaneoceps we have never seen ; but all of the others, save four, we here 

 describe from recent specimens shot near Calcutta ! The four exceptions 

 are — Phylloscopus occipitalis and Ph. chloronotus, and the two Culicipetce 

 which next follow ; and to these may be added the Regulus. 



