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12. Phylloscopus viridipennis. 



Phylloscopus viridipennis {Blyth) *. 



Muscicapa presbytia, S. Midler, Tydschr. v. Nat. Gesch. en Phys. ii. 



p. 331 (1835, descr. imlla). 

 Phylloscopus viridipennis, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 275 (185G). 

 Gervgone superciliosa, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 491. 

 Sylvia presbytis (Mull.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no. 3062 (1869) ; 



Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 169. 

 Acanthiza superciliosa ( Wall.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 219. no. 3133 



(1869). 

 Sylvia viridipennis {Blyth), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 217. no. 3092 



(1869). 

 Rerruloides viridipennis {Blyth), Bhffh S)- Waldm, B. Burm. p. 106 



(1875j ; Huvw, Sir. F v. p. 330 (1877) ; id. Sir. F. vi. p. 358 (1878). 

 Phylloscopus presbytis {Miill.), Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 83. 

 Phyllopseuste presbytis {Miill.), Giebel, Thes. Orii. iii. p. 120 (1877). 



Sprinrf plumage. General colour of the upper parts olive-green, 

 slightly yellower on the rump ; eye-stripe pale greenish yellow, well- 

 detined, and extending well on to the nape ; an indistinct ill-defined 

 pale mesial line on the crown ; crown between the mesial line and 

 the eye-stripes, lores, and transocular stripe dark olive, extending 

 across tlie nape and sharply defined from the paler back ; wing- 

 coverts brown, edged externally with j ellowisli green ; the median 

 wing-coverts with ill-defined pale tips, forming an obscure bar across 

 Ihe wing ; the greater wing-coverts with well-defined pale greenish- 

 white tips to the inside webs, forming a conspicuous lower wing-bar ; 

 quills browu, very narrowly tipped with greyish white, the outside 

 webs edged with yellowish green and cmargiuated as far as the 

 sixth ; tail-feathers brown, the outside webs margined with yel- 

 lowish green, and the inside webs of the outside feathers white, 

 sometimes extending over three outside featliers on each side, and 

 occasionaUy including the shaft and the basal portion of the outside 

 web. General colour of the underparts a uniform greyish white, 

 slightly suffused idl over with yellow ; axillarics, under wing- 

 coverts, and thighs pale yellow; inner margin of quills bufhsh white. 

 Bill Acroccphaline ; \ip])cr mandible dark brown, under mandible 

 pale. Legs, feet, and claws brown. Tourth and fifth primaries 

 longest ; second primary intermediate in length between the ninth 

 and fvvclfth ; the exposed part of the bastard primary measures 

 0-55 to 0*7 inch. Length of wing, male 2-2 to 2-0') inches, female 

 2-05 to 1-9 ; length of tail, male l-b5 to 1-7, female 1-7 to 1-55 ; 

 length of culmcn 0-45 to O'O. 



* The specific name of 2}>'<'sh/fis may possibly be the oldest name given to 

 this bird ; but since no description was published until Blj tli described the 

 types in the Leyden Museum in 1870, it must give way to Blyth's earlier name 

 of viridijieiiiiis, which dates from 1850. It is also doubtful whether the birds 

 L^belled !<ylria pris/^y/ifi in the Leydon Museum are the types to which Midler 

 gave the name of Mii.'icicajia pr(\<hy/is, inasmuch as they are all marked with the 

 locality of " Timor," and Miiller (toe. cit.) only mentions the name as belonging 

 to a bird which lie obtained oil Sumatra. 



