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reddish brown, bordered on either side by a black stripe 
commencing above the lores and continued along the sides 
of the occiput ; lores, feathers above the eye, and the more 
or less concealed occipital feathers whitish ; cheeks and ear- 
coverts yellowish white, bordered all round by a narrow black 
band; rest of the upper parts dull olive-brown; under parts 
yellowish white, the chin and throat with small arrow-shaped 
black markings at the ends of the shafts ; the sides and flanks 
streaked with rufous; quills and tail brownish black, margined 
externally with dull olive-brown ; wing-coverts like the back ; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts white. Iris red; bill black ; 
feet yellowish brown. 
g. Total length ca. 4°5 inches; wing 2°5; tail 1°9; 
tarsus 0°7. 
©. Total length ca. 4°5 imches; wing 2°5; tail 1-7; 
tarsus 0°75. 
I am not quite satisfied that the present species has been 
correctly placed in the genus Yuhina ; for though it possesses 
all the more marked characteristics of that genus—such as 
the lengthened pointed crest and the shape of the wing and 
tail, &e.—it has proportionately a much more slender bull. 
Though very distinct in colour from all previously described 
species of Yuhina, it is most nearly allied to Y. nigrimentum 
Hodgs. 
90. *HERPORNIS TYRANNULUsS Swinh. 
_ Herpornis xantholeuca Swinh. (nec Hodgs.) Ibis, 1863, 
p. 208. 
Herpornis xanthochlora Swinh. op. cit. 1863, p. 293. 
Herpornis tyrannulus Swinh. op. cit. 1870, p. 347, pl. x.; 
id. P. Z. Sal8vip. avs: 
a. 9. Ho Ho Mt., 5000 ft., Feb. 1906. 
Iris ruby-red; bill creamy-white at the base; feet yel- 
lowish flesh-coloured. 
This form of H. wantholeuca Hodgs. is distinguishable only 
on account of its somewhat smaller size. We have examples 
from Formosa, Hainan, and Foh-kien. 
