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serim bird. He describes Miiller's bird as something distinctly new. 

 I require no better evidence than this to convince me that Blyth 

 had never described a white-tailed Acanthopneuste of this type before. 

 He would, of course, not associate it with his Abrornis maculipennis, 

 which .is a totally different bird, and one to which no special 

 reference was necessary ; but it was to be expected that he would 

 mention his Phylloscopus viridipennis, if it had been a white-tailed 

 species, as one closely allied to A. presbytis. 



This A. presbytis, judging from specimens in the British Museum 

 collected by AVallace in Timor, is not by any means identical with 

 the bird procured by Davison on Muleyit, having a browner head 

 and a much larger bill, and I should not have noticed it in this 

 work had not Seebohm united it with Phylloscopus viridipennis, 

 Blyth, apud Hume. I did not inquire very minutely into the 

 matter when writing the ' Birds of Burmah,' but I have now 

 devoted considerable time to the subject, and I think it far from 

 established that the Timor bird described by Blyth is identical 

 with the Tenasserim white-tailed Willow-Warbler. Looking to 

 this and to the very unsatisfactory history of the synonymy of 

 this species, I prefer to denote it by a new name. 



Distribution. Discovered on Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim, 

 where it breeds and appears to be a permanent resident. I have 

 examined two specimens procured by Wardlaw Eamsay on the 

 Karen Hills and Karennee respectively, and Hume procured this 

 species in Manipur above Bishnupur on the 17th February, at an 

 elevation of about 3300 feet. 



Habits, $c. Davison found the nest of this species on Muleyit, 

 at an elevation of over 6000 feet, placed in a mass of creepers 

 growing over the face of a rock. The nest was a globular structure 

 constructed of moss and leaves and lined with vegetable down. 

 It contained three pure white eggs which measured '59 by -49. 



Genus CRYPTOLOPHA, Swains., 1837. 



The genus Cryptoloplia contains nine Indian species of Warblers 

 of very bright plumage in which yellow or green is the predomi- 

 nant colour. They approach the Flycatchers in the enormous 

 development of the frontal hairs, but differ from them in the young 

 not being spotted and in having a partial spring moult. This 

 spring moult is confined to the wings and tail. Two specimens of 

 C. castaneiceps procured in Native Sikhim in April and now in the 

 British Museum show this moult in progress, otherwise I should 

 have entertained doubts about it. The plumage of the young is 

 exactly the same as that of the adult. All the species are 

 resident. 



In Cryptoloplia the bill is about half the length of the head, very 

 broad and blunt ; the rictal bristles are greatly developed and the 

 frontal hairs extend quite up to the culm en and reach beyond the 

 nostrils, in some cases nearly up to the tip of the bill ; the wing is 

 somewhat rounded, the first primary being small and the second 



