58. CRTPTOLOPHA. 397 



3. Cryptolopha cantatrix. 



Motacilla cantator, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 57(5. 



Culicipeta Ciuitatur, BIyth, J. A. 6'. B. xvi. p. 440 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 



p. 1^00 ; Stebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 490. 

 Khipidura cautator, Gray, Gen. B. App. iii. p. 12. 

 Abniruis cautator, Blyih, Cat. B. Mm. A. 8. B. p. 183 ; IL>rsf. ^■ 



Moore, Cat. B. Mks. E.l. Co. i. p. 3;j8. 

 Sylvia cautator, Gray, Hand-/. B i. p. 217, no. 3080. 

 Abrornis (Culicipeta) cantator. Ball, *?/•. /'. 1874, p. 415. 

 Abrornis chrvsea, Walden in Blyth'uB. Biirm. p. 106* ; Hume, Str. 



F. 1877, p.*5(i. 



Adult. General colour above olive-greenish, a little more yellow 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts a Little more 

 yellow than the back, the greater coverts edged and tipped with 

 yellow, forming a bar across the wing ; (juills dusky l>rowu, exter- 

 nally edged with bright yellow, inclining to greyish at the end of the 

 primaries : tail-feathers light brown, externally edged with olive- 

 yellow, the outer feathers edged with white towards the tip of the 

 inner web ; crown of head olive-yellow, with a broad lateral streak 

 of black extending from the base of the bill to the sides of the nape ; 

 over the eye a distinct line of yellow, brighter than the crown and 

 skirting the black coronet-stripe ; feathers round the eye bright 

 yellow ; in front of the eye a dusky spot ; sides of face bright 

 yellow, shaded with dusky olive along the upper margin of the ear- 

 coverts ; cheeks, throat, and breast yellow, paler on the latter ; rest 

 of tlie under surface greyish white, clearer on the centre of the 

 abdomen ; thighs and under tail-coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 yellow, as also the edge of the wings ; axillaries white, washed with 

 yellow ; bill brown, the lower mandible yellowish white in skin : 

 legs brown. Total length 3'7 inches, culmcn O-i'), wing '2-25, tail 1'7, 

 tarsus 0"(i5. 



Hab. Xepal, Central India, Bengal, Assam. 



rt. Ad. sk. Assam. Secretary of State for India [P.]. 



* Cryptolopua fulvive.vtek. 



Ri'guloides fulvivent«r, Godwin-Aiisten, J. A. S. B. 1874, p. 167 {nee 

 Hodgs.). 



Above: centre of head light yellow-green, bounded on either side by broad 

 dusky bands ; nape pale greenish ash. Pure ash on b;ick ; upper tail-coverts 

 grass-green, as well. as the two centre tail-feathers and outer edge of all the 

 others ; the two out<>rmost, as viewed from below, have a narrow pale-yellow 

 edging on the outer web. Shoulder of wing ash-grey ; coverts asll-bro^vn, with 

 a narrow white bar. Quills dusky brown, the secondaries well marked with 

 grass-green. A pale yellow superciliuin. Ear-coverts p/ile : chin very pale 

 yellow ; throat, breast, and abdomen pale pearly white ; under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow ; bill above dark dark brown, below orange ; legs and feet grey. Length 

 about 3"'75, wing 2", tail r'-4, tarsus 0"'70, bill from front 0"'4. {Godwin- 

 Austen.) 



Hab. Low country of the Dunsiri, Assam. 



Lord Tweeddale, in the ' Birds of Burma,' suggests th.it this species, which is 

 founded on a single carbolized specimen, may be the same as his Abrornis 

 ckrysca, but that the colours have undergone some change from the carbolization 

 of the skin. This seems to be extremely probable. 



