42 



TURDID^, 



a,b. cJ 5 ad. Kopatbjera, R. Dvina, Aug. 8, F. Godman and 0. 



sk. 1869\ TV. Meves). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.l. 



c. (5 ad. sk. Yeuesav, lat. 66^°, June 23, H. Seebohm, Esq. [C]. 



1877^ 



d. S ad. sk. Dauria, May .31, 1873 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(2)r. Di/bozaki/). 



e,f. Ad. sk. Amoy, April {H. Sivinhoe). F. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



g. Ad. sk. Amoy. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Tenasserim. J. D. 0. Packman, Esq. 



[P.]. 



e. ft. Ad. sk. N.W. Borneo. Governor Ussher fC.]. 

 I. Ad. sk. Sarawak. H. Everett, Esq. [C]. 

 m, n. 2 ad. sk. Biutulu. H. Everett, Esq. |_0.J. 

 OS. Ad. sk. N.W. Borneo. Hug-h Low, E.sq. [0.]. 

 t. Ad, E. Timor. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 u. Ad. Flores. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [O.j. 

 y, w. Ad. Batcliiaii. A.R.Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



(Type of Sylvia Jiaoescens, Giay.J 



X. Ad. Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq.' [0.]. 



y. Ad. Mortv Island. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C. J. 



z. cS ad. sk. Berezott; Obb valley, July 10, T)r. O. Finsch [C.J. 

 1876. 



2. Phylloscopus xanthodryas. 



Phylloscopus xanthodrvas, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 186.3, p. 296 ; Seehohm, 



Ibis, 1877, p. 71. 

 Sylvia xanthodi-yas (Swinhoe), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no. 3060 



(1869). 

 Phillopneuste trinotaria, David, Nouv. Arch. vii. Bull. p. 7 (1870). 

 Phyllopneuste xanthodryas (•St^'m/ioe), Sivinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 356 ; 



Prjev. Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 171 (1877) ; David et Oust. Ois. 



aline, p. 268 (1877). 

 Phvllopseuste xanthodryas {Sivinhoe), Giehel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 122 



(1877). 



Spring plumage. General colour of the upper parts olive, slightly 

 yellower on the rump ; eye-stripe "well defined, narrow, yellowish 

 white, extending to the nape ; lores and the feathers behind the 

 eye to the nape dark olive ; wing-coverts olive, the median wing- 

 coverts with narrow, and the greater wing-coverts with broad 

 yellowish-white tips, forming an obscure npper wing-bar and a 

 conspicuous lower wing-bar ; quills brown, narrowly tipped with 

 greyish white, the outside web edged with green and emarginated 

 as in the preceding species ; tail-feathers brown, the outside web 

 margined with green, and the inside web with a narrow well- 

 defined greyish-white margin. General colour of the underparts 

 greeni.sh yellow, greyer on the breast and flanks ; axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and thighs pale yellow ; inner margin of quills greyish 

 white. Bill Acrocephaline ; upper mandible dark brov\n, under 

 mandible pale. Legs, feet, and claws brown. Third and fourth 

 primaries longest ; second primary usually intermediate in length 

 between the fifth and sixth, sometimes slightly shorter than the 



