Mr. F. Moore on some new species of Birds. 3^7 



Family Sylviad^e, Vigors. oo t^oihofi 



Subfamily Sylvian a, Vigors. / . 



Genus Horeites, Hodgson. r// 



2. Horeites major, Hodgson. 



Above olive-brown, ruddier on the wings ; tail rounded, more of a 

 dusky-brown, with the outer webs fringed with olive-brown ; cap red- 

 brown ; a yellowish-ferruginous superciliary streak, extending over 

 the ear-coverts ; upper part of the latter ruddy-brown, lower ashy ; 

 throat, sides of neck, centre of breast and abdomen ashy-white ; sides 

 of the breast and flanks olive-brown; bill dark horn- colour, yel- 

 lowish at base beneath ; feet also yellowish. 



Length, 5 inches ; of wing, 2^ ; tail, 2 j^, outer feather \ an inch 

 shorter than the middle ; bill to front, f ; to gape, f ; tarsus, -^ ; 

 middle toe and claw, -^\ inner ditto, ^; outer ditto rather more than 

 ^ an inch. 



Hab. Nepal. (No. 946. Hodgs. Catal.) 



This species may easily be distinguished by its greater size, 

 and larger bill, the wings being much longer, though rounded as in 

 the other species, and by the nearly total absence of ash- colour on 

 the under parts ; the feet also are much longer and stronger. 



Genus Abrornis, Hodgson. 



3. Abrornis poliogenys, Blyth. 



, Culicipeta poliogenys, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 441 (1847). 

 J Hhipidur a poliogenys, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, iii. App. p. 12. 

 *: Hab. Darjeeling, Nepal. (No. 920. Hodgs. Catal.) 



Head and nape, base of lower mandible and ear-coverts dark ash- 

 grey, the loral feathers tipped with greyish-white ; round the eye a 

 clear white ring ; back, rump and shoulders bright olive-green ; wings 

 dusky black, margined with olive-green, the greater coverts tipped 

 with whitish-yellow ; throat greyish-white, the rest of the under parts 

 clear yellow ; tail dusky on the six central feathers, which are mar- 

 gined with olive-green, the three outer being greenish-dusky on the 

 terminal half of the outer web, the basal half with the whole of the 

 inner web being white; upper mandible blackish horn- colour, lower 

 yellowish; feet yellowish horn-colour. ,ixii 



Length about A\ inches; of wing, 2 inches; tail. If; bill ta 

 front, y\ ; to gape, ^ an inch ; and tarse the same. 



**This species is nearly allied to Abrornis xanthoschistoSy Hodgs., 

 from which it differs in having the cheeks and ear-coverts, with the 

 feathers commencing from the base of the lower mandible, of the 

 same ash-grey colour as the head, and the throat greyish-white, in- 

 stead of these parts being bright yellow as in that species." 



4. Abrornis affinis, Hodgson f. 



This species is closely allied to A. poliogenys^ but differs from it in 



t No. 920*, to distinguish it from 920 of Mr. Hodgson's Catalogue. 



