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brown tinged with olive-green. Wing, 1 92 ; bill, from fore- 

 head, 0-56; tail, 1'92; tarsus, 0'58. 



Karen nee ( $, ? ) at 2800 feet of elevation. Iris (c?), lake ; 

 bill, lavender, pink at base of mandible ; legs, brownish yellow ; 

 feet, greenish. Iris ( ? ) 3 brown ; bill, dark plumbeous, pinkish 

 at base of mandible ; legs, light greenish-brown" (W. R.). — J. 

 A. S. B., 1875, Extra No., p. 116. 



Drymoeca Blanfordi, Wald* 



Above, brown (darkest on the head) : with an olive-green 

 tinge, which is in some very distinct on the rump. A dull, broad 

 albescent stripe springing from the base of the bill, and extend- 

 ing back over and beyond the eye. Ear-coverts mingled albes- 

 cent and pale brown. Cheeks, wing lining, and all the lower 

 surface of body, yellowish white, faintly rufescent on flanks 

 and thigh-coverts. Quills, brown externally, narrowly edged 

 with olive-green. In some with an indistinct rufous shade. 

 Rectrices, pale brown above ; albescent underneath ; all but 

 middle pair with a bold subterminal brown transverse isolated 

 mark. Middle pair with a faint indication of a dark terminal 

 spot. (<£) Wing, 2; tail, 2'50; tarsus, 08% ; bill from fore- 

 head, 0-58. 



"Iris ( $ ), dark buff; maxilla, horny brown ; mandible, pale ; 

 eyelids, yellowish brown ; legs, dull white. Iris (c?), yellowish 

 brown ; bill fleshy brown ; eyelids, yellowish brown ; Tonghoo" 

 {W. R).—J. A. S. B., 1875, Extra No., p. 118. 



Horeites sericea, Wald.f 



Above, uniform, rather dark, brown washed with an olive 

 tint, having in some lights a ruddy tone. Under surface of 

 body and wing-lining, silky white, the flanks, thigh-covert, 

 and under tail-coverts, sullied with pale brown. Cheeks and 

 ear-coverts, mixed pale brown and white. Space before the eye 

 and superciliary ridges, sordid white. Quills and rectrices 

 brown, edged with the colour of the upper plumage. Wing, 2; 

 tail, 1-75 ; tarsus, 0*68; bill, from forehead, 0*60. 



" Iris ( ? ), dull brown; bill, yellow ; leo-s, fleshy white. Karen 

 hills" {W. /?.).— J. A. S. B., 1875, Extra No., p. 119. 



* Should be compared with. D. fusca, Hodgs. — Ed., S. F. 



■j* This must be uncommonly close to Horeites (Pliylloscopus, apud Blanf. Err.) 

 pallidipes, Blanf, J. A. 8. B. XLI, Part II, p. 162, pi. VII, 1872, which I have 

 from Pahpoon, a little further south. — Ed., S. F. 



