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projecting root or stone; eggs verditer. Has much analogy with both 
the last genera, which it represents among the feebler Sy/viane, to 
which it belongs, as they to the Philomeline. It differs from the last 
by its feebler, more depressed bill, larger and more membranous 
nares, and more slender legs and feet; also by its mucronate and 
wedge-tipped alars and caudals. The mucronation allies it to Mus- 
cisylvia, from which it differs by its less ample wings and tail, more 
elevate tarse, and feebler bill. 
Type, T. chryseus, mihi.—Below the whole body with the entire 
shoulders, the lower back and greatest part of tail, deep gamboge- 
yellow; superciliary line the same; head above, neck and upper back, 
yellow-tinted olive; lores, orbits and ears continuously, central 
caudals and tips of the others black; alars dusky black, fringed on 
the lower edges with yellow; legs fleshy brown; bill horn-yellow 
below, dusky above. Female duller-hued, devoid of the black cheek- 
mark and superciliary line; her body above entirely olive-green ; 
alars and caudals dusky olive. Length, 53 inches ; bill, 44; tail, 24; 
wing, 22; tarse, 1,5, ; central toe and nail, 13; hind, 44. 
Genus Orthotomus, Horsf. 
Ist subgenus, Orthotomus. 
Bill sub-certhian, long, slender, inclining to arch, and entire, with 
the base largely exceeded by the nareal fosse ; nares large, membra- 
nous, free, the aperture lunate-linear and shaded above by a large 
unarched membrane; rictus slightly bristled; wings short, bowed, 
and feeble, but not perfectly rounded ; first four quills conspicuously 
gradated in a diminishing ratio; 5—6 equal and longest; tail mode- 
rate, narrow, feeble, much-rounded, with the two central plumes 
frequently elongated, as in the Bee-eaters; tarse high, stout, double 
that of the central toe, and strongly scaled; toes short, unequal, the 
outer fore longer and basally connected; the hind large and strong; 
nails strong and acute, the hind largest. Nearly confined to the 
hills; rare below in the cold season; solitary or in pairs; familiar ; 
dwells in low bushes and hedge-rows and fences, picking up minute 
insects from the leaves and decayed wood, and frequently descending 
to the ground, where they move fitfully, by hops, to take minute in- 
sects, and presently return to their low perch. Make beautiful pen- 
sile nests, by sewing together the edges of large leaves, and hence 
are called ‘ Patia’ or the ‘ Leaf-bird’ in the hills. 
Type, Sylvia putoria, v. sphenura, v. ruficapilla, Auct.—Above 
vernal green, below white; the great alars and caudals dusky; the 
top of the head brown-red; bill dusky horn; legs fleshy brown; iris 
brown. Female similarly coloured, but wanting almost entirely the 
prolonged central tail-feathers of the male, and smaller. Length (of 
male), 55 inches; bill, $; tail, 23; closed wing, 13; tarse, 3; cen- 
tral toe and nail, ,%; hind, ;4. Weight 4 or}o0z. Has a loud 
shrill monosyllable note—tee-tee-tee. 1 suspect there are two spe- 
cies, because the eggs differ in colour in the nests brought me, 
some being verditer-blue and unspotted, and others bluish white, 
with fawn spots. The latter, I think, belong to the above, and the 
