REGULOIPES VTRIDIFENNIS, Blytll. 331 



plumes tolerably bright yellow, the latter constituting another 

 good distinction : but a further and more conspicuous distinc- 

 tion consists in the wing beyond its coverts being uniformly 

 green, without a trace of the PtEGULUS-like variegation seen in 

 Ph. proregulus, and less conspicuously in Ph. chloronotus : 

 there is no dusky patch posterior to the coverts, nor whitish 

 tip or border to any of the great alars ; but the secondaries 

 are broadly margined with tolerably bright green, and the 

 tertiaries are merely of a duller green throughout, brightening 

 on their outer edge, and are not dusky and contrasting (as in 

 the other species). In brief, Ph. viridipennis may be des- 

 cribed to have the upper-parts vivid olive-green, brightest on 

 the margins of the wing and tail feathers ; lower parts albes- 

 cent, tinged with yellow ; crown dusky mixed with green, with 

 bright yellowish- white supercilia and coronal streak continued 

 over the occiput ; the supercilia more yellowish anteriorly ; a 

 broad pale yellow wing-band formed by the tips of the great 

 coverts of the secondaries ; and the smaller range of wing- 

 coverts slightly tipped with yellowish; tibial plumes bright 

 yellowish; the margin of the wing pure canary-yellow ; upper 

 mandible wanting in the specimen, but the lower is wholly 

 yellow ; legs infuscated brownish. Length, about 4 inches ; of 

 which tail, If inch; wing 2 inch; having the short first 

 primary T P F inch ; the second | inch longer than the first, and 

 f inch shorter than the longest primaries ; bill to gape ^ inch, 

 and tarsi f inch." 



We have recently obtained several beautiful specimens of 

 the true viridipennis, Blyth, from Mooleyit, where also Mr. 

 Davison found the bird breeding, and took the nest and eggs, 

 and I cannot help believing that a larger and distinct species 

 Las been confounded with Mr. Blyth's, and that it is this larger 

 and as yet unnamed species which Mr. Seebohm has described. 



In the first place, the dimensions given by Mr. Seebohm are 

 far too large. In the Mooleyit birds the wings of the male 

 measure 2'0; of the female 1'9 . In the second place Mr. Seebohm 

 omits one of the leading characteristics of the Mooleyit birds, 

 viz., that the whole of the inner web of the outer-tail feathers 

 and a portion of that of the next feathers are white. 



Seeing the great care with which Mr. Seebohm's descriptions 

 have been prepared, and looking to the fact that he has not 

 overlooked the similar peculiarly in erochrous, presbytis, fyc, 

 I cannot believe that had he had the true viridipennis before 

 him, he would have omitted to notice this peculiarity. 



In many respects our bird approaches prcsbyds of Miillcr, 

 but it has two distinct wing bands, though the upper one is at 

 times broken and obscured. 



