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Tickell says that it froq^ients trees in the thickest parts of the 

 jangle, and has a loud and incessant note, ^ pin-pio.^ I did not pro- 

 cure eitlier of the lust two species in Southern India. 



A nearly affined species exist in Plnjlluscopns trivii-gatus, Strick- 

 land, from Java, figured in Jardlne's Contribution to Ornithology 

 for 1849. 



Gen. Abrornis, IIodgson. 



Bill wider than in PhyUnscopns or Regiiloides, depressed, 

 moderately deflected, and distinctly notched ; nostrils concealed ; 

 a few fine rictal seta?; otherwise as in Phylloscopus. 



The bir>ls of this r^roup only differ structurally from the two 

 last forms by their wider and more depressed bill ; but they have a 

 peculiar mode of coloration, and, in this respect, divide into two 

 lesser groups, the one with the head more or less grey, the other 

 with the head chesnut. It is chiefly a Himalayan genus, but 

 extends through Burmah to jMalayana. 



571. Abrornis schisticeps, Hodgson. 



Gray, Zool. Misc. — Culicipeta, Cat. Nep. Birds, App. p. 153 — 

 Blyth, Cat. 1093 — Horsf., Cat. 231 — A. melanotis, JjiUDON 

 and Blyth, P. Z. S., 18G1, p. 200. 



The Black-eared TVarbler. 



Descr. — Crown, occiput and ear-coverts, greyish slate, tino-ed 

 greenish on the head, and passing to olive-green on the shoulders 

 and back; yellowish on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; win^s 

 and tail dusky, margined with olive-green; the inner webs of the 

 outer tail feathers white ; abdomen white ; a broad streak from 

 the front above each eye, the throat, breast, and vent, brio-ht 

 yellow ; lores, base of lower mandible, under and over the eye, 

 and a streak below the ear-coverts, black. 



Bill and feet horny. Length o| inches; wing I^q', tail If; 

 bill at front 7 mill. ; tarsus f . 



This species has been found in Nepal, at Mussoorie, and I pro- 

 cured it in Sikhim, but there rare. Hutton says that it is common 

 at Mussoorie, and breeds at about n,000 feet. It makes a round 

 ball-like nest, with a lateral entrance, of grass, moss, wool, cotton, 



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