70 irKDID^. 



Siberia, and at a high elevation in the mountains of South Siberia ; 

 a few stragglers pass through Europe on migration. "Winters in 

 South China, the Burma peninsula, and North India. 



a, h. Ad. sk. East Siberia. Prof. Brandt [C.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Yenesay, Siberia, lat. 60^°, H. Seebohm, Esq. [C.]. 



Juiie'26, 1877. 



d. <S ad. sk. Dauria, July 17 {Dr. Bij- E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



hoimktf). 



e. Ad. sk. Muddap'ur, Oct. 21, 1878 (TF. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



E. Brooks). 



f. $ ad. sk. Bvnor, N.W. India, Nov. 15 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



\Cnpt. MarsJiall). 



g. Ad. sk. N.W. India {Capt. MarsJwU). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Hong Kong, Feb. (Swinhoe). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



22. Phylloscopus maculipennis *. 



Abrornis chloronotus, Hodgs. MS. Dramngs {in the Brit. Mus.) 

 of Birds of Nepal, Passeres, App. pi. 45. no. 839 {descr. nvlla, nee 

 A. chloronotus, Ilodqs. Grmfs Zool. Misc. p. 82. no. 839) ; Hume, 

 Nests Eggs hid. B. p. 372 (1873). 



Regulus chloronotus {Hodgs.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 175 (1848, descr. 

 nulla). 



Abrornis maculipennis, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 27. 



Syhia maculipennis {Blyth), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 217. no. 3088 

 (1869). 



Reguloides ?, Bhmf. J. A. S. Beng. xli. pt. 2, p. 163 (1872). 



Phylloscopus maculipennis {Blyth), Seehohm, Bns, 1877, p. 107. 



Regulus maculipennis {Blyth), Giehel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 415 (1877). 



The plumage of this species is subject to very little seasonal 

 change. The pale tips to the quills are so obscure that their loss 

 by abrasion scarcely alters the appearance of the bird. In very 

 abraded skins the pale tips to the innermost secondaries become 

 lost or obscure, and the broad orange-yellow tips to the greater 

 ■wing-coverts become dull and narrow. 



In full plumage the general colour of the ujtper parts is yellowish 



* Tlie svnonjmy of tbis bird is somewhat intricate. Hodgson confused it 

 with P.jirortgi/lns{Tal\.). Both specie are rej^resented in the British Museum 

 amongst the types of "Abrornis chloronopus \e\ Eegulus vnodestus amcI.," ihe 

 skins of both species being nunilered "839." No. 839 is on plate 57 in the 

 first volume of Hodgson's ' Drawings of Birds of Kepal in the British Museum.' 

 Fig. 5 on tliis plate undoubtec ly represents P. proregulus (Pall.), without the 

 grey on the head and throat and without the white on the inside webs of the 

 two outside tail-feathers of P. maeidij cnnis, Blyth. The figure bears the name 

 '• Ahrornin cMoronotvs. no. 839, ^(g modisttis auct. ?" 



Li the Appendix to Hodgson's ' Drawings of Birds of Nepal in the British 

 Museum,' plate 45, are two figures undfiubtedly representing P. tiiacidij^ennis, 

 Blyth, showing the grey on the head and the white inside webs of the outside 

 tail-feathers. These figures are also nun.bered "839." 



Inas-much as neither Hodgscn nor Gray pulilished any description of this 

 speties, and since it is clear that Hodgson confounded it with the following 

 one, and that consequently his name has been frequently applied to both 

 species, it seems to me perfectly clear that his name must be rejected in favour 

 of that of Blyth. 



