RKGULOIDES SUPERCILIOSUS AND HUMII. 475 



markings, having a tendency to mark out and define plain 

 patches or spots of the ground colour, towards the tips of 

 the feathers, analogous to the spots on the upper surface. 



The tibial plumes and some of the vent feathers regularly 

 and closely barred hair-brown and dull buff; the lower tail- 

 coverts brown, rather dark on the terminal one-third, where 

 they are freckled and blotched with ferruginous buff, and with 

 a more or less conspicuous oval, purer buff spot or dron just 

 at the tip. 



The lower surface of the quills and their greater lower 

 coverts grey brown, with a few pale buff spots or markings on 

 the inner webs at or towards their margins ; the rest of the 

 wing-lining deep brown, profusely spotted with ferruginous buff. 



From the female of melanocephala it is at once distinguish- 

 ed by the black and buff of the upper surface, so much richer 

 and darker in tone ; altogether different from the comparatively 

 grey upper surface of melanocephala. From the female of 

 satyra it equally differs ; on the upper surface it is blacker 

 and less ferruginous ; on the lower surface it is paler and 

 wholly wants the warm ferruginous buff of that species, which 

 iu the present is replaced by greyish creamy. After they have 

 once been seen, unlike the females of the Gallophasis section of 

 the Euplocami, the females of the several species of Ceriornis 

 can be as easily recognized as the males. 



The young males show the transition from the female to the 

 male plumage, just as do those of melanocephala and satyra. 



A. O. H. 



larger observations on fieguloiks superciltosus ml Uep* 

 loioes \wox> also on SUploiks snb&iriMs an!) Calliope 

 geatmani, tetram. 



By W. Edwin Brooks. 



I have lately had a few opportunities of hearing the note of 

 Reguloides superciliosus, and it is as distinct as possible from 

 that of R. humii. It is a rather loud and distinct shrill 

 " twee j" something intermediate between the " chink " of the 

 Chaffinch and the common note of the Yellow Wagtail, (Budytes 

 rayi) will give an idea of the note, except that its note is not 

 nearly so loud as those of the two birds above mentioned. Now 

 the note of Reguloides humii is a truly Phylloscopine " tis-yip," 

 as Bly th calls it, similar to that of the Willow Wren (P. trochi- 

 lus), but much shriller, and I think louder. 



