56 RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



mingled black and green. Cheeks, chin, throat, thigh-coverts, 

 under tail-coverts, shoulder-edge, under shoulder-coverts, and 

 axillaries, bright canary-yellow. Breast, paler yellow, shading 

 to pale silky grey on the abdominal region and flanks. Quills, 

 light brown, edged externally with bright greenish yellow. 

 Major wing-coverts, tipped and edged with yellow. Rectrices, 

 like the quills, all but the middle pair being edged on their 

 interior margins with very pale yellow. Maxilla, brown ; 

 mandible, pale straw-colour. Wing, 2 ; tail, 2*75 ; tarsus, 0*56 ; 

 bill from forehead, 0'50. Karen hills, ? {W. R.). 



I am not sure whether this is not Reguloides fulvivenier* 

 Godwin-Austen, a species founded on a carbolized example, in 

 which the green and yellow may have become changed to grey, 

 or altogether discharged.— J. A. S. B., 1875, Extra No. p. 106. 



Zosterops Austeni, Wald. 



Karennee, at 2,500 feet ( W. R.). 



Above, dark uniform oil-green ; underneath, light yellowish- 

 green ; almost pure yellow on chin, throat, and under tail- 

 coverts. A shade of black below the eye. Quills, dark brown, 

 edged externally with the colour of the dorsal plumage. 

 Shoulder-edge, bright yellow. Axillaries and under shoulder- 

 coverts, white, tinged with yellow. Rectrices, hair brown, 

 narrowly edged externally with green. Wing, 2-6 ; tail, 1*50; 

 tarsus, 0*50; bill, from forehead, 0*55. — J. A. S. B., 1875, 

 Extra No., p. 111. 



Alcippe magnirostris,t Wald. 



Karennee hills, at 3,000 feet ( W. R.) 



All the individuals obtained in the locality named differ from 

 Darjeeling, G-aro hills, and Naga hills examples, by wanting 

 the grey-coloured cheeks and ear-coverts of A. nipalensis, and 

 by having the tail brown and not rufous. All the dimensions 

 are greater. Wing, 2-75 ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 0'87.— J. A. S. B., 

 1875, Extra No., p. 115. 



Stachyris assimilis, Wald. 



Above cinereous olive-green. Feathers of the head, yellow, 

 with brown central streaks. Cheek and ear-coverts, pale brown 

 tinged with yellow. Entire under surface, dilute yellow. Quills, 

 brown edged, externally with pale yellow. Rectrices, cinereous 



* Vide S. F. III. p. 398. 

 ■fl feel assured that this is only the true A. Phayrei (vide infra p. 60). — Ed., S. F. 



