238 FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS OF 



superciliosus is perhaps the best and safest distinction to go by. 

 I refer to autumnal birds of each. 



5. The brighter yellow of the upper wing* bar in super- 

 ciliosus. This is, as a rule, a good mark ; the upper or narrower 

 wing bar showing nearly as distinctly as the larger or lower 

 one. This latter is also much brighter in superciliosus. 



6. Superciliosus has pale brown legs and feet as a rule, 

 while those of the other bird are dark brown, and of stouter 

 make. This is a good distinction. 



7. The lower mandible of the bill in superciliosus is yellow 

 on basal half, while it is very pale dull brown in humei. This 

 is also a good distinction. 



8. The smaller and feebler legs and feet of superciliosus. 



9. The generally smaller size of the bird. I have measured 

 a humei 4 - 5 in the flesh ; 3*8 to 40 is the size of superciliosus. 



10. The wings and tail are much blacker in superciliosus, and 

 the light marks, such as wing bars and edgings to tertials, 

 present a much prettier contrast. 



11. The silence of superciliosus and the noisiness of the 

 other bird. 



12. Superciliosus being only found in the eastern side of 

 India. I have shot great numbers of humei from Cashmere to 

 Dinapore, and never got a single superciliosus, nor have I seen 

 it in other collections from the North- West. 



This is a very strong point. The same consideration is 

 equally strong in the case of Reguloides subviridis, the eastern 

 limit of which is probably about Allahabad. In brilliancy of 

 plumage superciliosus, when in good plumage, falls but little 

 short of Reg. viridipennis and Reg. flavo-olivaceus, but these two 

 latter are more of a bright yellowish olive, and not the purer 

 green of R. superciliosus. Pliylloscopus nitidus is of a bright 

 green, but its green is paler than that of superciliosus. 



first fist flf % §iri>s of fttrm&pre, fetcnt §enpl 



By J. B. Cripps. 



In submitting this very imperfect paper, which must I know 

 prove most tedious to the reader, I think it only fair to say 

 that it has been prepared solely at the instigation of the 

 Editor. He assures me that no local avifauna of any of the 

 Central Deltaic districts has ever been published, and that 

 however dull the paper, it will possess some value as an 

 accurate (so far as it goes), though incomplete, list of the birds 

 which occur in one of these. 



