330 REGULOIDES VIRIDIPENNIS. Blyth. 



It will be noted that I Jo not as yet include Irena puella re- 

 ferred to by Captain Butler, V. 327. If a specimen of this species 

 lias really ever occurred in Sindh in an apparently feral state, it 

 must I think have been an escaped prisoner. Irenas are not 

 easy to keep alive in captivity, but natives at times manage to 

 keep a pair (single birds always die I think) and prize them 

 highly.— A. 0. H. 



Reguloides viridipennis, Blyth. 



Mr. Seebohm, in his recent admirable monograph of the 

 Phylloscopi (Ibis, 1877, p. 83), thus describes Blyth's R. viri- 

 dipennis : — 



11 Bill, large ; under mandible, pale. 



Upper parts, 3-ellowish olive-green ; wing and tail, greyish 

 brown, with the outside edge of each feather broadly margined 

 with yellowish green; superciliary streak pale yellow. 



Head, darker-coloured than the back, with a pale mesial line ; 

 underparts, yellowish white, greyer on the breast and flanks. 



Axillaries aud wing-lining, bright yellow. 



Fourth and fifth primaries longest ; third and sixth rather 

 shorter; seventh, eighth, and ninth each considerably shorter 

 than the preceding; second primary about equal to the ninth. 



Exposed part of bastard primary *5 to '65. 



Two distinct wing bars. 



Length of wing — male — 2*4 to 2-25 ; female 225 to 21. 



Length of tail — male — 1*9 to 1*8 ; female 1*8 to 1*7. 



Legs aud claws brown.''' 



Mr. Blyth's original description (J. A. S. B., 1855, XXIV, 

 p. 275), is as follows : — 



" Phylloscopus viridipennts, nobis, n. s. A fourth spe- 

 cies of the Reguloides sub-groub (J. A. S., XXIII, p. 487), 

 and most nearly resembling Ph. chloronotus ; * but readily 

 distinguished from that species by having the rump 

 uniformly coloured with the back, also by having a longer and 

 differently coloured bill, and legs of much darker hue. From 

 Ph. proregulus f (Regidus modestus, Gould), it is distin- 

 guished by its inferior size and much brighter colouring, the 

 mesial coronal streak being as much developed as iu Ph. chlo- 

 ronotus, and of a purer yellowish-white contrasting with a 

 blacker shade of dusky : edge of wing considerably brighter 

 yellow than in the others ; the wing-band and also the tibial 



* Blyth here really intends, R. proregulus, Pall. In those days there was a con- 

 fusion about these species. — Ed., S. F. 

 f Mr. Blyth here refers E. superciUiosus, Gm.— Ed., S. P. 



