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British Museum now, and the geographical distribution of each 

 can be traced with ease. 1 understand Brooks to say (I.e.} that 

 there are three species of this type of Cryptolopha, but I am unable 

 to distinguish more than two from the series I have examined. 



Both species are figured in 'Lahore to Tarkand.' The upper 

 figure named A. xanthoschistus is rightly so called. The lower 

 figure named A. albosuperciliaris should be 0. jerdoni. 



434. Cryptolopha xanthoschista. Hodf/son's Grey-headed 

 Flycatcher- Warbler. 



Phyllopneuste xanthoschistos, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 



(1844,descr. nulla) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. $c. Nepal, p. 151 (1846). 

 Abrornis albosuperciliaris, Bh/th, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 202 (18C3) ; Hume, 



N. # E. p. 371 ; Brooks, 8. F. Hi, p. 245 ; Hume, Cat. no. 573. 

 Abrornis xanthoschistus (Hodgs.\ Hume & Hemlcrs. Lah. to Yark. 



p. 220, pi. xx, fig. 1. 

 Cryptolopha xanthoschista (Hodgs.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 398 



(part.) ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 270. 



The White-browed Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, mantle, and back pale ashy 

 brown, with merely a trace of a paler mesial coronal band ; scapu- 

 lars, rump, and upper tail-coverts yellowish green ; wings and tail 

 brown, with margins of yellowish green, the two outer pairs of 

 tail-feathers white on the inner web ; a white supercilium from 

 the nostrils to the nape: lores and behind the eye dark brown; 

 edges of the eyelids white ; sides of the head and of the neck ashy- 

 brown ; the whole lower plumage bright yellow. 



Upper mandible brownish black ; lower one horny yellow ; iris 

 blackish brown ; tarsus plumbeous ; toes brownish ; soles yellow ; 

 claws dusky (Scully}. 



Length about 4-3; tail 1/8: wing 2'3; tarsus 75; bill from 

 gape '55. 



Distribution. Found throughout the Himalayas from Nepal to 

 Hazara and Kashmir. This bird is also found at the foot of the 

 hills, at Saharanpur for instance, and is probably a resident in 

 all parts of its range. 



Habits, <$fc. The breeding-season is from March to May. C. 

 xanthoschista makes a large globular nest of moss, grass, hair, and 

 wool on a grassy bank at the foot of some small bush, and lays 

 four white eggs which measure '63 by '5. 



435. Cryptolopha jerdoni. Brooks' s Grey-headed Flycatcher- 

 Warbler. 



Abrornis xanthoschistos (Hodg*.}, apudJerd. B. I. ii, p. 202 ; Hume. 



N. $ E. p. 370; Hume, Cat. no. 572 : Scully. S. F. viii, p. 309; 



Hume, S. F. xi, p. 225. 

 Abrornis jerdoni, Brooks, Proc. A. S. B. 1871, p. 248 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 572 bis. 



