206 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



579. Tickellia Hodgsoni, Moore. 



Abrornis, apud Moore, Housf., Cat. 679. 



The Broad-billed Warbler. 



Descr. — Above olive-green, yellowish on the rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; forehead and crown deep ferruginous ; the infraorbital 

 plumes blackish, tipped white ; above and below the eyes, ear- 

 coverts, and sides of neck, grey ; throat and breast greyish white; 

 abdomen yellow ; wings dusky, margined with ferruginous olive- 

 green ; tail dusky, the two outer feathers, with the whole of the 

 inner web, white, the rest margined with olive-green. 



Bill horny, yellowish at base beneath; legs yellowish. Length 

 3| to 4 inches ; wing If to 2 ; tail If ; bill at front T %, or 10 mill. ; 

 tarsus y^. 



I procured one specimen only of this rare bird from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Darjeeling, and I think that Hodgson's specimens 

 were also probably from Sikhim, and not from Nepal, as given 



by Moore. 



Gen. Regultjs. 



Char. — Bill short, straight, somewhat conic; nares protected 

 by one or two rigid plumes ; tail of ten feathers ; otherwise as in 

 J&egvloides. 



This genus, comprising two species from Europe, the well-known 

 golden-crested Wrens, and other from North America, Japan, and 

 Madeira, approximates Reguloides in the coloration of the head, 

 which, however, is much more highly developed. The bill more- 

 over is more conic. It is clearly related to JEgithalus, Avhich is 

 usually located among the Tits ; and these two forms may be 

 said to join the Warblers and the Parince, to which sub-family 

 the Gold-crests perhaps more strictly belong. 



£80. Regulus Himalayensis, Blyth. 



Reg. cristatus, apud Blyth, Cat. 1113. — Gould, B. Asia, pi. 



The Himalayan Fire-crest. 



Descr. — Plumage dingy green, yellowish on the rump ; head 



with a central patch of flame color, edged with pale yellow, and 



tinged with a dark streak from the base of the upper mandible ; 



lores, supercilia, and ear-coverts, greenish grev ; wing-coverts 



