THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF iNATUIlAL HISTORY. 



[SECOND SERIES.] 

 No. 87. MARCH 1855. 



XV. — A Monograph of the Indian species of Phylloscopus and its 

 immediate affines. By Edward Blyth*. 



There is uo group of birds more difficult to the student of 

 Indian ornithology than the very extensive series of small Bee- 

 fins, or " Warblers," known to the French as Pouillots, and in 

 parts of England by the name of Pettychaps. It is exemplified 

 in Europe by four well-known speciesf; and as an avis rarissima 

 in Eux'ope, the common Indian Motacilla proregulus, Pallas {Re- 

 gulus modestus, Gould), which strictly appertains to the series 

 under review, has been obtained in Dalmatia and in Britain ; 



* From the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. 5, 1854. 

 t 1. Phylloscopus sibilatrix ; Motacilla sibilatrix, L. ; Sylvia sylvicola, 

 Latham. Type of Sibilatrijc, Kaup. 



2. Ph. Bonelli; Sylvia Bonelli, Vieillof ; S. Nattereri, Temminck. 



3. Ph. trochilus ; Motacilla trochilus, L. ; Sylyia. fitis. Bechsfein ; also, 

 according to M. Degland, S. icterina, Temminck (nee Vieillof) ; S. flavi- 

 ventris, Vieillot ; S. angusticaiula, Gerbe; and S. tamaricis. Crespigny. 



4. Ph. rufus ; Ciirruca rufa, Brisson ; Sylvia collybita, Vieillot ; S. loquax, 

 Herbert ; and by the older British ornithologists erroneously assigned to 

 Motacilla hippolais, L. 



In addition to these four, in N. Africa, Dr. Riippell describes — 



Ph. iimbrovirens ; Sylvia umbrovirens, Riippell {described but not figured 



in his Neuen Wirbcltliieren, Vogel, p. 112). From Abyssinia. 



Ph. brecicaudatus ; Sylvia brevicaudata, Riippell, Atlas, t. 35. From 



Kordofon. 



Another that will probably have to be added to the European fauna is — 

 Ph. brevirostris ; Sylvia bre\-irostris, Strickland, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 98. 



Procured at Smvrna. Differs from Ph. rufus in its greater size, and from 



Ph. trochilus " in the shortness of the beak and the dark colour of the legs." 

 Lastly, two species are briefly described in Dr. Horsfleld's Catalogue of 

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