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563. — Reguloides occipitalis, Jerd. The Large 

 Crowned Tree- Warbler. 



Cold weather visitant. Recorded from Nagar by Mr. 

 Fairbank, and from Ratnagiri by Mr. Vidal. 



565.— Reguloides superciliosus, Gm. The Crowned 

 Tree- Warbler. 



Cold weather visitant. Recorded by Mr. Fairbank as com- 

 mon along the Sahyadri range. 



565 bis. — Reguloides humii, Brooks, Hume's 

 Crowned Tree- Warbler. 



A specimen I shot in Belgaum was pronounced by Mr. 

 Hume to belong to this species, which seems to be very closely 

 allied to the last, but differs principally in having the back, 

 wings, and tail of a less bright green, and the yellow tips to 

 the wing-coverts not so pure. It is only a cold weather 

 visitant. 



Note. — Probably the whole of the species of this family 

 enumerated above will be found hereafter to occur more or 

 less abundantly throughout the region in suitable localities, as 

 hitherto few collectors seem to have taken the trouble to collect 

 specimens. 



581. — Sylvia jerdoni, Blyth. The Eastern Black- 

 capped Warbler. 



Cold weather visitant. Not uncommon, as a rule, in the 

 plains portion of the region, but is not included in Mr. Vidal's 

 list of Ratnagiri species. Probably it avoids the hills and 

 forest tracts. I obtained it near Belgaum. It is somewhat 

 partial to babool jungles. 



582.— Sylvia affinis, Blyth. The Allied White- 

 throat. 



Cold weather visitant. Mr. Fairbank remarks, "common 

 in the Deccan/' but strange to say it is not included in Messrs. 

 Wenden and Davidson's list of Deccan species, neither has it 

 been recorded yet from Ratnagiri. I procured it at Belgaum 

 towards the end of the cold weather, but it seems to be 

 decidedly scarce in the southern portion of the region, and 

 probably avoids the Ghats and forest tracts. Jerdon also 

 mentions it from Jalna and other parts of the Deccan. It is 

 doubtless this species that Mr. Fairbank intends to refer to 

 when he records S. curruca, Lin., (which does not occur iu 

 India) as common in the Deccan. 



