494 RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 
with the three outer feathers, white towards the tip, the colour 
extending a little up the shaft on inner web,—the next two with 
a small terminal white spot; chin, throat and chest, white, 
below which, the under surface is saffron yellow ; paling at the 
vent; under-tail coverts, white, edged pale yellow. 
Female.—Length, 4”"1 : wing, 2°25 ; tail, 1""1. Bill, slightly 
lighter in hue than ¢ ; legs, feet and iris, the same as ¢. 
Head and hind neck faded bluish ashen ; centres of feathers, 
dark ; back, olivaceous brown; secondaries and wing coverts, 
brown, edged with olivaceous ; quills, lighter than in the male; 
sides of neck and chest, ashy; beneath, paler yellow than the 
male, mingled with grey on the flanks ; tail, brownish black. 
flab. Forests of the low hills in the Southern Province 
(Ceylon), where it affects principally the creepers which entwine 
the trunks of the trees, resorts also to small branches of low 
trees. 
Food.—Seeds and pollen from the flowers of creepers — 
Ibis, 1874, p. 2. 
Reguloides subviridis, Brooks, 
I have, for the last six years, procured specimens of a Regu- 
loides, which is not uncommon in the North-West Provinces 
during the cold weather. This bird I took tobe Reguloides 
viridipennis, Blyth, as far as I could judge by the brief des- 
cription given in Dr. Jerdon’s work. Recently, I have had the 
pleasure of examining Mr. Blyth’s type birds of this species 
and of reading his original detailed description of it in the 
Journal of the Asiatic Society, Vol. XXIV, p. 275; and I find 
it to be a species strongly resembling Heguloides trochiloides, 
Sundevall, but considerably smaller, and rather brighter color- 
ed. I shall, therefore, name my hitherto undescribed bird as 
above. 
Description.— Above, dull light olive green, with the rump and 
upper tail coverts a shade or two lighter, but not yellow white 
and abruptly defined, as in Reguloides proregulus; lower sur- 
face, dull albescent, tinged with yellowish; wings and tail 
brown; the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, edged with 
light olive green ; and the tertials with broad whitish margins 
as in Reguloides superciliosus, but to a rather less extent. The 
greater or secondary wing coverts are brown, broadly tipped 
with dull yellowish white, which forms the second wing bar ; 
the smaller wing coverts are edged with light olive green, but 
the lower, or last row, are tipped with dull yellowish white, 
which forms the upper or first wing bar. I need hardly observe 
that in all Reguloides, the first wing bar is very narrow, and the 
second one is very broad; the coverts of the primaries are 
