26 Mr. Blyth^s Commentary 



and Schl. (Faun. Japon. Aves, pi. xviii.), does not rank well as 

 a Reguluides. It has longer and firmer wings than the other 

 Indian species of the group. 



564. Reguloides trochiloides. 



Not uncommon, rather than " very common/^ about Calcutta 

 during the cold season ; and the same remark applies to Phyllo- 

 scopus affinis (no. 561). 



565. Reguloides suPERCiLiosus(Gmelin) ; Regulus modestus, 

 Gould; Phyllobasileus superciliosus, Cab. J. f. 0. 1853, taf. 1. 



566. Reguloides proregulus (Pallas) ; Abrornis chloro- 

 notus, Hodgson. 



Mr. Swiuhoe remarks, "In the summer of 1857 I found 

 the pine-groves abounding with numerous families of Reguluides 

 proregulus and Parus minor" (Ibis, 1862, p. 257). I have re- 

 peatedly observed and shot R. superciliosus both in Bengal and 

 Southern Burma, but never met with it otherwise than singly — 

 with the habits of a Phylloscopus, and not those of a Regulus as 

 Mr. Swinhoe's observation of the nearly allied R. proregulus 

 would imply. Mr. Hodgson figures a pendent nest like that 

 of a Dicoium as the nest of R. proregulus *. 



570. Cllicipeta cantator (Tickell), Jerdon, is distinctly an 

 Abrornis. I obtained one specimen only of this bird near Cal- 

 cutta, and Col. Tickell obtained one in Central India. This is 

 the only Abrornis I know of which occurs in India southward 

 of the Himalaya. 



574. Abrornis flaviventris seems to be identical with A. 

 superciliaris, Tickell (J. A. S. B. xxviii. pp. 414, 453). In this 

 case the latter name holds precedence ; and the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces would have to be included in the range of this species. 



578. Abrornis castaneiceps (Hodgson), Jerdon, is decidedly 

 a Reguloides, and is figured as Regulus castaneiceps by Gray 

 and Mitchell (111. Gen. Birds, pi. 49. f. 1). 



* The North American Reyidus calendula has not the peculiai* feather 

 impending over each nostril of the normal Goldcrests. 



