332 REGULOIDES VIRIDIPENNIS, Blyth. 



I will endeavour to describe our bird according to Mr. 

 Seebohm's own formula. 



Bill, large ; under mandible, pale. 



Upper parts, rather bright olive green ; wings and tail, hair 

 brown, the outside web of each feather broadly margined with 

 olive green ; entire inner web of outer tail-feather, pure white ; 

 more or less of that of the next succeeding feather also white ; 

 inner webs of quills, except the bastard primary, margined 

 white, the earlier ones at their bases only, the later ones almost 

 to their tips ; superciliary streak from nostrils to nape pale 

 yellow ; a large conspicuous dusky green spot behind the eye, 

 continued as an indistinct lino under the prolongation of the 

 supercilium. 



Head very much darker colored than the back, almost black 

 on the sides of the occiput, with a conspicuous broad very pale 

 yellow mesial Hue. 



Under parts yellowish white, greyer on the breast and 

 flanks j edge of the wing pale yellow ; wing-lining and axillaries 

 white with a faint primrose tinge ; lower tail-coverts similar. 



Fourth and fifth primaries longest ; sixth sometimes shorter 

 sometimes equal, in one Specimen a shade longer; third 0'05 

 to O07 shorter; second 0*3 to 035 shorter, and equal to or 

 shorter than the tenth. 



Bastard primary rather narrow ; exposed portion 05 to 0'55. 

 Two distinct wing bars. 

 Length of wing — male — 2"0 ; female 1*9. 

 Length of tail — male — 1*63 ; female 1'59. 

 Legs and feet (in skin) dusky ; claws rather paler. 

 Now I think it will be admitted that this is not the bird 

 described by Mr. Seebohm as viridipennis ; on the other 

 hand this is the one Reguloides common on the upper parts of 

 Mooleyit, and which breeds there, and there can therefore, I 

 believe, be extremely little doubt, that it is the true viridipennis. 

 The larger species described by Mr. Seebohm will, if distinct, 

 require a new name. I shall not, however, propose any new 

 name for it, because as I apprehend the bird described as viridi- 

 pennis by Mr. Seebohm is the bird that Mr. Brooks and I 

 have hitherto considered to be viridipennis, and in regard to 

 which, I have always found an extreme difficulty in separat- 

 ing large examples of it from small bright-colored ones of 

 trocldloides. 



No doubt Mr. Seebohm has laid down a diagnosis between 

 the two, based on a small difference in the proportions of the 

 primaries ; but quite recently, on examining a large series of 

 this group, I have had reason to fear that in the case of many 

 of these species Mr. Seebohm's diagnoses, though extremely 



