ABHOTINIS. 429 



this course was not unusual in his day, and we may therefore, 1 

 think, retain the genus; and in so doing 1 shall make Abrorn is 

 scliisticeps the type. 



Abrornis resembles Cryptoloplia in everything except the tail, 

 which has ten feathers instead of twelve. It contains four Indian 

 species. Abrornis lays spotted eggs, whereas Crypioloplm lays 

 pure white eggs, and it is very remarkable that a difference in 

 the number of tail-feathers should be accompanied by so marked a 

 difference in the colour of the eggs. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Back arid scapulars greenish or yellowish. 



a'. Chin and throat white A. superciliaris, p. 429. 



b'. Chin and throat bright yellow A. schisticeps, p. 430. 



c. Chin and throat white, but with the bases 

 of the feathers black, both colours exhi- 

 bited in equal quantities A. albigularis, p. 430. 



b. Back and scapulars ashy grey A.Jlaviyularis, p. 431. 



440. Abrornis superciliaris. The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher- 

 Warbler. 



Abrornis superciliaris, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 414 (1859) ; Blanf. 



J. A. S. B. xl, pt. ii, p. 164 : Hume, S. F. iii, p. 140 ; Hume $ Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 359 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 626 ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 674 ; Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 188 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 226 ; 



Gates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. i, p. 273. 

 Abrornis albio-ularis, Jerd. df Blyth, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 200. 

 Abrornis flaviventris, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 203 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xliii, pt. ii, p. 168. 



Abrornis griseifrons, G. R. Gray, Hume, Cat. no. 577 bis. 

 Cryptolopha superciliaris (Tick.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 402; 



Gates, B. B. i, p. 273. 



The Yelloic-bellied Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. Forehead and crown, as far back as the eyes, grey ; 

 remainder of the upper plumage oil-yellow ; a distinct white super- 

 cilium from the bill to the nape ; lores and behind the eye brown ; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts mingled grey and white ; chin, throat, and 

 upper breast white ; remainder of lower plumage bright yellow ; 

 wings black edged with olive-green ; coverts pale brown edged 

 with olive-green ; tail brown, edged exteriorly with olive-brown 

 and interiorly with pale rufous. 



Bill horn- colour, plumbeous at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 mouth yellow ; eyelids grey ; iris dark brown ; legs and claws 

 yellow. 



Length rather more than 4 ; tail 1-8 ; wing 2-1 ; tarsus -75 ; 

 bill from gape '55. 



Specimens from the Salween in Burma have the whole crown grey. 



Distribution. From Sikhiin down to Tenasserim, but nowhere 

 common. This bird has been recorded from the Graro hills ; 

 Tippuk in the Dibrugarh district ; the eastern hills of Manipur ; 



