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Tickell says that it frequents trees in the thickest parts of the 

 jungle, and has a loud and incessant note, ' pio-pio.'' I did not pro- 

 cure either of the last two species in Southern India. 



A nearly affined species exist in Phylloscopus trivirgatus, Strick- 

 land, from Java, figured in Jardine's Contribution to Ornithology 

 for 1849. 



Gen. Abrornis, Hodgson. 



Bill wider than in Phylloscopus or Regidoides, depressed, 

 moderately deflected, and distinctly notched ; nostrils concealed ; 

 a few fine rictal setae ; otherwise as in Phylloscopus. 



The birds of this group only differ structurally from the two 

 last forms by their wider and more depressed bill ; but they have a 

 peculiar mode of coloration, and, in this respect, divide into two 

 lesser groups, the one with the head more or less grey, the other 

 with the head chesnut. It is chiefly a Himalayan genus, but 

 extends through Burmah to Malayana. 



571. Abrornis schisticeps, Hodgson. 



Gray, Zool. Misc. — Culicipeta, Cat. Nep. Birds, App. p. 153 — 

 Blyth, Cat. 1093 — Horsf., Cat. 231 — A. melanotis, Jerdon 

 and Blyth, P. Z. S., 1861, p. 200. 



The Black-eared Warbler. 



Descr. — Crown, occiput and ear-coverts, greyish slate, tinned 

 greenish on the head, and passing to olive-green on the shoulders 

 and back ; yellowish on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings 

 and tail dusky, margined with olive-green; the inner webs of the 

 outer tail feathers white ; abdomen white ; a broad streak from 

 the front above each eye, the throat, breast, and vent, bright 

 yellow, lores, base of lower mandible, under and over the eye, 

 and a streak below the ear-coverts, black. 



Bill and feet horny. Length 3| inches ; wing 1 T 9 ^ ; tail If ; 

 bill at front 7 mill. ; tarsus f . 



This species has been found in Nepal, at Mussoorie, and I pro- 

 cured it in Sikhim, but there rare. Hutton says that it is common 

 at Mussoorie, and breeds at about 5,000 feet. It makes a round 

 ball-like nest, with a lateral entrance, of grass, moss, wool, cotton, 



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