336 NOVELTIES. 



Length of wing, female, 2*1 . 

 Length of tail, female, 1'85. 



Tarsi, very slender, apparently pale bluish fleshy ; feet, dingy 

 yellowish. 



This is a true Phylloscopus, typical in all details aud not in 

 any way approaching the Horeites group, with their rounded 

 tails and wings, huge first primary and lax, silky under 

 plumage. 



The bird, referred to by Mr. ISeebohm, Ibis, 1877, 75, as like 

 Phylloscopus tenellipes, viz., Phylloscopus pallidipes , Blanford, 

 is, as Mr. Brooks long ago pointed out, a veritable Horeites, 

 and independent of structural differences, which are very 

 marked, is altogether differently colored to tenellipes, when the 

 birds are laid side by side. 



I notice that Mr. Seebohm says of P. tenellipes that the 

 only skins he has ever seen or heard of are two in Mr. Swin- 

 hoe's collection. 



I have several, collected by Davison, in various parts of 

 Tenasserim. Dr. Armstrong obtained one at Amherst. Mr. 

 Gates' shikarees whom he sent down to Malewoon, a splendid 

 collecting locality which Davison was the first to work, ob- 

 tained two or three specimens. 



We have had this species for years ; and both Mr. Brooks 

 and myself have, I find, separately noted on the covers of 

 different specimens that the bird was unknown, and required 

 description; but it was not until I received Mr. Brooks' valuable 

 paper, S. F., IV., p. 276, that I identified the species, an identi- 

 fication which Mr. Seebohm's exhaustive diagnosis has entirely 

 confirmed. 



Another allied species has lately turned up, viz., Reguloides 

 coronala, T. and S. Mr. Oates first sent me specimens to name, 

 obtained by his shikarees at Malewoon. But immediately 

 afterwards Davison sent others obtained about the same time at 

 Malewoon. 



The characteristic point about this species is, as stated by 

 Mr. Brooks, S. F., IV., p. 275, the pale yellow lower tail- 

 coverts. 



Of the 33 known species of Phylloscopi (including in this 

 genus as Mr. Seebohm does as sub-genera, Acanthopneuste, 

 Phylloscopus, and Reguloides ,) all, but eight, are now known 

 to occur within our limits, viz. xanthodryas, presbytis, umbro- 

 virens, sibilatvix, trochilus, gatkei, bonellii and collybita (rufa), 

 :md the first of these will most probably yet be found in 

 Tenasserim. 



