170 Mr. E. Blyth on the Indian Phylloscopi. 



2^ in. ; its first primary i in.*, and the second not y% in. shorter 

 than the tliird, which exceeds the sixth, and nearly or quite (in 

 difierent specimens) equals the fourth and fifth : tail 1,} to If in., 

 even. An unusually large specimen measured 4|^ by 7 in. ; \nng 

 2-f in. : tail If in. : bill to gape nearly | in. : tarse || in. Irides 

 dark. Upper mandible dusky, the lower yellow except at tip ; 

 and legs rather pale brown, without any plumbeous tinge. Bill 

 nearly as much compressed as in Regulus. Plumage, above 

 olive-green, brightest on the rump, wings and tail : crown dusky, 

 with a pale mesial line, sometimes well defined, but in new plu- 

 mage not very distinct ; and in much worn or abraded plumage 

 it often disappears altogether, and the upper parts are then 

 dingy grayish-brown, with scarcely a tinge of green : two con- 

 spicuous yellowish- white bars on the wing, the hinder more 

 broad ; and behind this is a dark patch, corresponding to the 

 black seen in Regulus : tertiaries conspicuously margined with 

 whitish (as more or less in Regulus), and secondaries and some 

 of the pi-imaries slightly tipped with the same : axillarics, with 

 the fore part of the wing underneath, pale yellow : supercilia and 

 lower parts greenish-albescent. 



Common in Lower Bengal, where a few perhaps breed ; but 

 the great majority retire to the mountains for that purposef- As 

 an exceedingly great rarity, it has been met with in Dalmatia and 

 in England. Habits as in other species of Phylloscopus, and not 

 (as in Regulus) gregarious : song-note nearly similar to that of 

 Ph. sibilatrix, but considerably weaker. 



13. Phylloscopus chloroxotus. 



Abrornis chloronotus, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 ; G. R. Gray, 

 ' Appendix to Catalogue of Specimens presented by Mr. Hodgson to 

 the British Museum/ p. 152; v. Regulus modestus apud Hodgson. 



Resembles the last, but is smaller, with bill conspicuously 

 shorter and darker-coloured, and the rump pale canary-yellow, 

 strongly contrasting with the hue of the back ; the median coro- 

 nal line much more conspicuous, and the pale margins of the 

 tertiaries less so. Its size is that of the European Regulus 

 cristatus. 



Length 3i in., or a trifle more : wing 1^ to 2 in. ; its first pri- 

 mary -j^g in., the second ^ in. shorter than the third, which does 

 not equal the fouilh and fifth : bill to gape about ^ in., and 

 tarse f in. : tail l^ in. to If in. Upper mandible blackish, the 

 lower pale except towards tip. Legs pale. In other respects 



* In one only, of several specimens, f in. 



t A reputed nest, taken near Calcutta, is described J. A. S. xii. note to 

 p. 965. 



