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 Republications. 



Phylloscopus Tytleri, Brooks (See also ante note, 

 p. 243.) 



The following are the dimensions : — Length, 4'75 inch ; wino- ? 

 2*3; tail, 1*7 5 bill, at front, '36; bill, from nostril, *3; tarsus, 

 •75. 



The dimensions of Phylloscopus viridanus are : — Length, 5 

 inches ; wing, 2*5 ; tail, 2 ; bill, at front, -3 ; bill, from nostril, 

 •29 ; tarsus, S. 



It will be seen from the above that P. viridanus is a larger 

 bird. 



In form P. Tytleri differs from P. viridanus by having a 

 longer, narrower, much more ■pointed, and very much darker- 

 coloured bill, the lower mandible being black-brown instead of 

 pale flesh-colour. This alone is quite sufficient to distinguish 

 it : the wing is shorter, but of the same form as that of P. 

 viridanus in regard to proportions of primaries. The tail is 

 shorter. In colour it is of a darker and richer olive on the 

 whole upper parts, and does not appear to have the tail rayed ; 

 that of P. viridanus is generally very conspicuously rayed. 

 There is a total absence of the u slight whitish wiug-bar," 

 which I have always observed to be present in P. viridanus, 

 unless the bird be in very abraded plumage. 



In notes and song (if the few notes it utters can be called a 

 song) P. Tytleri is utterly different from P. viridanus. Its call- 

 note is very peculiar, and once heard could not be easily for- 

 gotten. In the localities it frequents and inhabits it is quite 

 opposed to P. viridanus. The latter, during the breediuo- 

 season, frequents mountain-ravines not far from the snows, 

 which are covered with brushwood and small birch trees ; 

 w 7 hilst P. Tytleri is a forest Phyolloscopus, frequenting the pine- 

 woods below the snowy ranges. 



Turtur humilior, Hume. 



I may also take this occasion to mention that in my account 

 of the birds of the Nicobars and Andamans I noticed that I 

 had obtained at the latter Islands a small dove, resembling 

 Turtur humilis, but as I believed different. 



* Under this title I intend gradually to republish the original descriptions of all new 

 species added of late years to our Avifauna by Jerdon, Brooks, Gould, Walden, Legge, 

 Stoliczka, G. Austen, Salvadori, Cabanis and others. At present, scattered as these are 

 about the pages of a dozen different periodicals, English, Italian, German, they are 

 practically inaccessible to the Indian Geld ornithologist.— Ed., S. F, 



