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I have beard, and is better and more varied. There was a 

 good deal of red pollen on the foreheads of those I procured. 

 In the middle of May, they were very ragged, and in the moult. 

 It affects trees and tolerably thick jungle occasionally, and in 

 this respect differs from other Prinias. 



538.— Prinia Hodgsoni, Blytli. 



At Barahath and other similar places of moderate elevation. 



547.— Suya crinigera, Eodgson. 



Common at Mussoori and at many places beyond, but was 

 not met with in the Alpine parts of the valley. 



556— Phylloseopus* magnirostris, Blyth. 



I frequently heard its song uear Danguli and again not far 

 from Gaugaotri. Also on the road from Sansoo to Kauri- 

 agalia in a rocky wooded glen through which a small stream 



* Subjoined is Mr. Brooks' original description of Phylloseopus Tytleri. — Ed. 



" In plumage resembling P. viridanus, but of a richer and deeper olive ; it is entirely 

 ■without the " whitish wing bar," which is always present in viridanus, unless in very 

 abraded plumage. The wing is shorter ; so is the tail ; but the great difference is in the 

 bill, which is much longer, darker, and of a more pointed and slender form in P. Tytleri. 

 The song and notes are utterly different ; so are the localities frequented. P. viridanus 

 is an inhabitant of brushwood ravines, at 9 and 10,000 feet elevation ; while P. Tytleri i3 

 exclusively a pine forest Phylloseopus. In the places frequented by viridanus it must 

 build on the ground, or very near it ; but our new species builds 40 feet up a pine tree a 

 compact half-domed nest on the side of a fir branch. Eggs pure white. Captain Cock 

 took the only nest obtained, shooting the old bird off the nest. Properly speaking, none of 

 the notes of P. Tytleri could be called a song, but the song of P. viridanus is not at all 

 a bad one, and quite Phylloscopine. I give measurements of the new bird, and also of 

 P. viridanus for the sake of comparison. Here let me observe that Colonel Tytler is, 

 properly speaking, the discoverer of this interesting Phylloseopus ; for four years ago 

 he shot one at Simla, which, together with one of my own specimens. I have sent to 

 Dr. Tristram for examination. Col. Tytler had labelled the bird Sibilatrix ajfinis ; 

 while Phylloseopus ajfinis stood in his Museum as Asilus affinis. As most ornitholo- 

 gists do not recognize the generic distinctions of Sibilatrix and Asilus, and as Asilus 

 has been applied to a genus of insects. I have, with Col. Tytler's permission, altered the 

 name of his bird to Phylloseopus Tytleri. The only question remaining is whether it 

 is distinct from the Phylloscopi described by the Russian naturalists. Dr. Tristram 

 identifies'P. viridanus with P. Sehwarzi, Radde ; but it is possible that he may have 

 compared the Russian specimens with some of P. Tytleri. The measurements of my 

 specimens are — 



P. Tytleri. 



