388 Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on 



This species resembles Cettia fortipes of the Himalayas, 

 but is easily distinguished by its ashy grey throat and breast. 

 These birds are placed in the genus Cettia by Mr. Seebohra, 

 but they seem to me to belong to at least a distinct sub- 

 genus, and, but for the weight of his authority, I should have 

 preferred to call this new species Horornis oreophila. 



Fam. PvCNONOTIDiE. 



Oreoctistes *, gen. n. 



Genus simile generi '^ Kelaartia " dicto, sed rostro breviore et 

 crassiore, cauda magis rotundata, et fasciis auricularibus 

 absentibus distinguendum. 

 The type is 



8. Oreoctistes leucops, sp. n. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 

 Adult male. General colour above dull olive-greenish, the 

 feathers dusky in the centre, with olive margins ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills dusky brown, edged with rather lighter olive-yellow, 

 particularly the primaries, the inner secondaries resembling 

 the wing-coverts ; tail-feathers blackish, externally olive- 

 yellowish, the ends narrowly fringed with whity brown; 

 crown of head dusky, the feathers edged with dark ashy, 

 producing a scaled appearance, many of them, on the nape 

 especially, washed with olive-yellowish j centre of forehead 

 like the head ; lores, eyebrow, feathers round eye, sides of face, 

 cheeks, and throat white, the hinder ear-coverts and hinder 

 part of eyebrow light earthy brown ; lower throat, fore neck, 

 and chest light ashy brown, some of the feathers edged with 

 pale olive-yellow, the sides darker brown; breast and abdo- 

 men white, with a slight tinge of yellow^ ; sides of body, 

 flanks, and thighs dark brown, with an olive tinge ; veut 

 and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white tinged with yellow ; edge of wing 

 bright yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy fulvous along the 

 inner edge: ''bill, feet, and iris black ^^ [J. JV.). Total 

 length 7'3 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3"45, tail 3"45, tarsus 

 0-85. 



* opvs, nions ; KTicTTrii, coloiiuR. 



