128 ON AN OVERLOOKED SPECIES OF REGULOIDES. 



veiled under the euphueisms, business or politics) will 

 cease to cherish national jealousies and prejudices, but in the 

 world of science far removed above the din of warning selfish- 

 ness, whether individual or national, the touch of truth should 

 make the whole world kin, and the whole universe fatherland. 



This is but a poor little insignificant thing, this proposed 

 International Code of Ornithological Nomenclature, but still it 

 would be a step, however small, in the direction to which all 

 our efforts should tend, and it is one that I have reason to 

 believe now feasible. Will none of our great ornithologists 

 at home make the attempt and set the matter on foot ? 



A. 0. H. 



®tt u 0kd0(M spcics ti f eploiks* 



By W. Edwin Brooks, c.e. 



On several occasions, when my friend Mr. Mandelli sent me 

 examples of Reguloides superciliosus from Darjeeling, I was 

 struck with their very bright coloration. I had often obtained 

 fresh autumnal examples in the plains of the North-West Pro- 

 vinces of India, but they were all much duller in tone. I 

 observed that the colour of the supercilium, and of the head 

 generally, differed. The supercilium being in the one case 

 brownish white or exceedingly pale brown, and in the other 

 pale yellow. The same difference existed in the colour of the 

 cheeks a pale brownish colour against greenish white, more or 

 less tinned with yellow in the other bird. I did not then con- 

 sider what such variation implied. 



Two or three weeks ago another friend, the Editor of this 

 journal, sent me three examples shot at Shillong in October 

 last. These were in beautiful fresh autumnal plumage. In 

 addition to the greenish yellow supercilium and the pale 

 yellowish cheeks, there was a blackish olive band on each side 

 of the head, which expanded laterally towards the nape of the 

 neck where they united, forming a sort of dusky narrow half 

 collar, most distinctly and abruptly separated from the olive 

 oreen of the back. Down the centre of the crown was a 

 <rreenish °-rey coronal streak, very much more marked than 

 seen in North-West examples. This head coloration, i.e., the 

 dark lateral bands, much resembled that of Reguloides^ occi- 

 pitalis or R. trochiloides. The other two examples did not 

 show this peculiar head coloration so strongly, and they were 

 not quite so bright in plumage. I have the same bird shot 

 near Howrah in January, and I have seen others in the Indian 



