Ml-. E. Blyth on the Indian Phylloscopi. 173 



dusky above, below yellow or amber-coloured ; and tarse pale, 

 riuniage, above dull olive-green, brighter on the rump and 

 margins of the wing and tail-feathers, those of the primaries 

 yellowish, and a pale rufescent bar across the wing : two broad 

 black streaks on the crown, and between them a dull greenish 

 streak flanked with ashy : supercilia also dull green ; but the 

 orbital feathers are yellow ; and the entire under- parts are pale 

 dull yellow, or albescent-yellowish, becoming of a deeper yellow 

 on the belly and lower tail-coverts : tail having its three outer 

 feathers wholly white, save the terminal half of their outer web, 

 together with the tip of the inner web of the ante-penultimate 

 and slightly of the penultimate. 



Inhabits the Nepal and Sikkim Himalaya*. 



4. CULICIPETA SCHISTICEPS. 



Abrornis schisticeps, Hodgson, nobis, J. A. S. xiv. 592. 

 Phyllopneusfe xanthoschistos, Hodgson, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 82 

 (imdescribed) ; G. K. Gray, 'Appendix to Catalogue,' p. 151. 



Length 4^ in. : of wing 2^^ in., with primaries as in C. Biirkii: 

 tail \^ in.: bill to gape f in.; and tarse ^ in. Bill dusky 

 above, below amber-coloured ; and feet apparently pale brownish- 

 plumbeous. Plumage, above pale ashy, passing to greenish- 

 yellow on the rump, wings and tail : below, with the cheeks and 

 lower half of the ear-coverts, wholly bright yellow : a whitish- 

 gray supercilium and narrow medial streak upon the crown, and 

 two broad ill-defined lateral streaks of rather a more dusky gray 

 than that of the back : outermost and penultimate tail-feathers 

 only, white on their inner webs. The young have looser plumage 

 and all the colours less intense. 



This appears to be very common throughout the sub-Hima- 

 layan territories, and is likewise met with in Arakan; but it 

 appears never to descend from the hills. According to Capt. 

 Hutton, it is a common species at 5000 ft. elevation, and com- 



* Mr. G. R. Gray suggests that this may be the young of his Abr. 

 erochroa, Hodgson, which he thus describes : — 



"Length 5 "in.; bill from gape ^ in.; tarse f in.: wings under 2i in. 

 Upper surface olive-green ; a streak over each eye from the nostrils, under 

 surface and lower part of back, yellowish-white, brightest on the back 

 [rump?] and vent: wings with the tips of the greater coverts broadly 

 margined \^■ith rufous-white : quills brownish-black, narrowly margined 

 with yellowish-green : tail slaty-brown, margined with yellowish-green, the 

 outer feathers principally white." 



We suspect that this description merely refers to a fine specimen of C. 

 pulckra ; and may remark that the jiresent is the only species of the series 

 of which the Society- possesses but an inditfereut specimen. Of the rest, C. 

 castaneoceps we have never seen ; but all of the others, save four, we here 

 describe from recent specimens shot near Calcutta ! The four exceptions 

 are — Phylloscopus occipitalis and Ph. cMoronotus, and the two Culicipetes 

 which next follow ; and to these may be added the Regulus. 



