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is extremely doubtful belongs in the same genus. The latter has 

 a proportionally shorter tail in relation to the wing. Oreopneuste 

 davidii Swinhoe {—Ahrornis amiandi Milne-Edwards) is the type 

 of Oreopneuste Swinhoe by monotypy. Phaeorhadina has been pro- 

 posed by the Mathews and Iredale*'^ for PhyJlopneuste fuscata 

 Blyth, but whether the other species (except anriandi) placed in 

 Oi'eopneuste by Sharpe*^ really belong with fuscata I am not pre- 

 pared to say; they are very similar in structure so far as I have 

 examined them, however, except Phylloscopus neglectus Hume, 

 which belongs in Acanthopneuste. Horomis Hodgson as usually 

 constituted is also in need of revision, it seems to me. The present 

 species bears a striking resemblance in coloration to Horomis acan- 

 thizoides; it is a larger bird, however. Horomis has only 10 tail 

 feathers, while Oreopneuste has 12; otherwise they are structurally 

 much alike, but owing to this difference had better be kept separate. 



As descriptions in English of this species are poor, a few notes on 

 the plumages may be of help to other investigators. The May and 

 June taken birds are light-brownish olive on the upper parts, a little 

 deeper on the top of the head ; superciliary stripe extending to nape, 

 marguerite yellow; loral and postocular streaks darker than top of 

 head; cheeks and sides of neck, deep olive-buff with a cinnamon 

 v/ash; throat and foreneck grayish white with sparse light yellow 

 streaks; chest, breast, and belly barium yellow, with sparse grayish 

 white and buffy olive streaks ; under tail coverts, naples yellow. 



The fall-taken birds are buffy olive above or deeper; the super- 

 ciliary is deeper yellow ; the throat and foreneck with an increase of 

 yellowish streakings; the chest, breast, and belly a deeper yellow, 

 with a few whitish streaks; under tail coverts honey yellow; the 

 flanks suffused with ecru-drab. 



The June birds in worn plumage taken in the Likiang Mountains 

 would seem to indicate it was a summer resident there. It was origi- 

 nally described from north China. It may be the Yunnan birds are 

 not the same, which might account for the discrepancies in the 

 descriptions. I have been unable to compare them. 



159. PHAEORHADINA FUSCATA FUSCATA (Blyth) 



Pliyllopneuste fuscata Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, 1842. 

 p. 113 (Calcutta). 



One unsexed, Heshwe, 9,600 feet, April 30; one female, Likiang 

 Mountains, 11,000 feet, September; one female, Whei Hsi Moun- 

 tains, October-November. 



The unsexed specimen from Heshwe is considerably larger, darker 

 above, and lighter below than the two females. It may be a male. 



^« Aus. av. Record, vol. 3, 1917, p. 116. 

 « Hand-List, vol. 4, 1903, p. 214. 



