216 MUSCICAPID/E. 



Above bright yellowish olive green, rather brighter on the rump and upper 

 tail coverts ; wing coverts like the back, the greater series tipped with yellow, 

 forming an indistinct bar across the wing ; the quills ashy brown with yellow- 

 ish green margins, less distinct on the secondaries ; tail feathers ashy brown, 

 margined with yellowish green, the inner web of the outermost nearly all 

 white, also the terminal half of the next ; crown of the head yellowish green, 

 on each side of which is a broad black band slightly shaded with grey below ; 

 lores, eyebrow and sides of face olive yellow ,- round the eye a circlet of 

 bright yellow feathers ; cheeks, sides of the neck, under wing coverts and 

 under surface of the body bright yellow ; bill dusky above, beneath ambef ; 

 legs brownish yellow ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 4 to 4/3 inches ; wing 2*2 ; tail 1*75 to r85 ; tarsus 0*7 ; culmen 

 0-5. 



The female is much duller in colour. 



Hab. Northern India, ranging to Nepaul. 



The Black-browed Warbler occurs in the N. W. Provinces of India, also in 

 Oudh. The specimens in the National Collection are from between Simla and 

 Mussoorie, Nepaul, Behar, Darjeeling, and Bhootan. Jerdon, quoting Blyth, 

 says " it is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Calcutta during the cold 

 season, and, like the rest of its tribe, retires to the sub-Himalayan region to 

 breed." Of its nidification there is no record. 



244- Cry ptolopha cantatrix, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 397. 

 Motacilla cantator, Tick, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 576. Culicepeta cantator, Jerd. B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 200, No. 570; Seebohm, His, 1878, p. 490. Abrornis cantator, Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 370; id. Sir. F. viii. p. 102; Ball, Str. F. 1874, 

 p. 415. Abrornis chrysea, Wald. in Blyth' s B. Burm. p. 1 06; Hume, Str. 

 F. 1877, p. 56. Cryptolopha cantator, Gates, B. Burm. i. p. 270. The 

 LESSER BLACK-BROWED FLY-CATCHER. 



Olive green above, yellower on the rump and upper tail coverts ; chin, lores, 

 throat, cheeks, supercilia, sides of neck, lower tail coverts and edge of the wing 

 bright yellow ; quills dusky brown, externally edged with bright yellow, greyish 

 at the end of the primaries ; greater wing coverts edged and tipped with yellow, 

 forming a bar across the wing ; 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, on each side of which a broad black band 

 extending from the base of the bill to the sides of the nape ; feathers round 

 the eye bright yellow ; a dusky spot in front of the eye ; breast yellow ; abdomen 

 and flanks greyish white, or silky white-, vent, thighs and under tail coverts 

 bright yellow ; bill brown; the lower mandible yellowish white; legs brown 

 or fleshy yellow ; irides hazel. 



Length. 37 to 4 inches ; wing 2*25 ; tail 17 to r8 ; culmen 0-45 to o'5S ; 

 tarsus 0*65. 



