390 DESCRIPTION OF ANOTHER NEW REGULOIDES. 



maculipennis. In mode of edoring to tertials the new bird strono"- 

 \y resembles proreguluSy superciliosus, humii, and suhviridia ; in 

 fact the four wing-s are very much alike, except that those of 

 mandellii and superciliosus are brighter coloured ; tail feathers 

 edged with light olive green ; supercilium a warm dusky buff, 

 with sometimes a slight greenish tinge, and differing from the 

 dusky greenish one of erochroa; cheeks dusky pale buff, 

 mottled with brown ; a dark brown streak through the eye ; 

 lower parts dusky albescent, much tinged with yellow ; ridge 

 of wing sulphur yellow, and axillaries a somewhat paler yellow. 



Bill dark brown, with basal half of lower mandible dull 

 orange yellow ; legs and feet pale yellow brown, the feet much 

 tinged with yellow ; the second primary is generally about 

 equal to the ninth. 



I obtained three examples in the flesh, of which I give the 

 measurements below; also of three examples in Mandelli's 

 collection : — 



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gether with the yellow on lower mandible of bill, and the pale 

 yellowish legs and feet, at once separate this bird from 

 jR. humii. Again, it appears to be a scarce local eastern hill 

 species, and non-migratory ; while the other is a migrant, and 

 well-known almost all over India. It has also a very distinct 

 note from M. humii, which must have left Darjeeling before I 

 got there in the end of October, for I never heard its well-known 

 note. The note of the new bird is more of a chirp. I heard this 

 note on one occasion a number of times before I shot the bird. 



No. 6 is an April example from Sikhim, and the wing bars 

 are much worn, and faded to a dull white ; the light edges to 

 tertials are also almost worn away. At a first glance the tone 

 of the bird much resembles erochroa, but there are no white 

 feathers in the tail, and the wing spots are not orange. Beg. 

 superciliosus is a bird of much greener tone, and it has a 

 silvery white belly, not unlike that of sibilatrix; the bill too 

 of superciliosus is shorter and blunter. 



If the new bird were in poor plumage, and an inferior skin, it 

 would not be easy to discriminate it, but a newly-killed bird is 

 very easy to make out. The principal characteristic is the very 

 dark head, but in a faded specimen this would not be so apparent. 



