NOVELTIES. 335 



Phylloscopus Seebohmi, Sp. Nov. 



Bill moderately large— pale underneath ; no wing bar ; first primary of 

 moderate breadth ; exposed portion, 058 ; 3rd and Wi primaries 

 longest— 2nd betioeen 6th and 7th; wing in ? , 2-1 ; tail, 185 



The small size, coarse bill, very pale beneath, and entir e 

 absence of any trace of a wing bar seem to distinguish this 

 species at once. 



Thanks to Mr. Seebohm, after whom I have named it, I have 

 had no difficulty in deciding that it must be undescribed or, at 

 any rate, unknown to him, which, after the labour and research 

 he has devoted to the Willow Warblers,* may prima facie be 

 assumed to be the same thing. 



In size and general appearance this supposed new species 

 most resembles plumbeitarsus, and appears to have had bluish 

 white tarsi ; but the coloration is slightly different, as are 

 the proportions of the primaries, and there is absolutely no 

 wing bar. 



I have only one specimen, a female, killed at Tavoy in 

 March, but this, except that the extreme tip of the bill has been 

 shot off, is a singula?^ good specimen. 



I shall follow Mr. Seebohm in my description :— 

 Bill, large ; under mandible pale yellowish white ; upper 

 mandible, rather pale brown. 



Upper parts brown, with in places a faint olivaceous tinge ; 

 rump, pale dull olive green ; upper back, paler, greyer, contrast- 

 ing with darker brown of head and nape. Wings and tail, pale 

 hair brown ; the quills just tinged on the margins of outer webs 

 with dull olive green. A conspicuous dull white supercilium 

 from nostrils to nape ; a broad brown stripe through lores and 

 post occular region ; ear-coverts, brownish white. 



Head, much darker than upper back, about the same as 

 middle of back. 



Under parts, white, sullied with a greyish brown tinge ; flank 

 feathers (some), lower tail coverts, and wing liuiug, purer 

 white ; a faint yellow tinge along the edge of the wing. 



Third and 4th primaries longest ; 5th decidedly shorter ; 

 6th and 7th each successively shorter; 2nd primary a little 

 shorter than the 6lh. 



Bastard primary of moderate breadth, 0*11 ; length of exposed 

 portion 058. 

 No wing bar. 



* Vide his monograph of the Phylloscnpi, Ibis, 1877. 



