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colour passes beneath the eye, and a narrow band of dusky 

 passes through the eye, and reaches the termination of the 

 auriculars. The under parts pale yellow ; the ridge of the 

 wing bright lemon colour ; wing feathers dusky, edged with 

 pale yellow, becoming broader on the secondaries ; two con- 

 spicuous bands of lemon colour across the coverts ; the wings 

 reach to within f in. of the end of the tail. Bill brown, 

 with the under mandible paler at the base ; mouth yellow ; 

 legs and toes brown with the under surface of the toes in- 

 clining to yellow ; claws brown." 



From an examination of a considerable series of specimens 

 sent from India by Mr. Brooks, this species would seem to 

 vary a good deal in the shade of its tints ; and the light- 

 coloured occipital streak is frequently wanting. The hen 

 from the first nest obtained by that gentleman is said to 

 have been in very faded and worn plumage. 



This bird has by some authors been placed in the genus 

 Regulus, to the species of which its light wing-bars give it 

 a superficial resemblance ; by others it is regarded as the 

 type of a separate genus ; and by others, again, it is classed 

 with the Willow- Wrens. This last course seems the most 

 preferable, as the Yellow-browed Warbler differs in no 

 structural character of any value from the genus Phylloscopus, 

 and in all its habits, as above recounted, it closely resembles 

 the species of that group. Mr. Blyth's suggestion (J. A. S. B. 

 1847, p. 442) of a separate genus, Reyuloides, for its recep- 

 tion * would therefore appear to be unnecessary. That dis- 

 tinguished zoologist laid down no definition of his term, nor 

 did Dr. Cabanis when, in 1850, he proposed to substitute the 

 name Phyllobasileus for Mr. Blyth's word. From liegiilii*, 

 as now restricted, the Yellow-browed Warbler with its con- 

 geners can easily be recognized by the want of the single 

 feather which covers the nostril in the Golden-crested Wren, 

 next to be described, and its allies. 



* Jleyulus modcstus, Gould (that is to say Motacilla proreyulus, Pallas), is 

 strictly speaking the type of this genus, but the two species must be considered 

 congeneric. 



