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cheeks cream-colour. Through the eye and below the eye-streak 

 runs a dark line of olive-brown, darker on the coverts ; the eye- 

 streak whitening and increasing towards the occiput. Wings 

 light hair-brown, margined and tinged with olive-sienna : 

 quills darker hair-brown with dark shafts. Some of the large 

 coverts tipped with yellowish. Tail light hair-brown, margined 

 and tinged with olive-sienna, browner on the rump. Lower 

 parts pure white, except sides of the neck, flanks, and thighs, 

 which are slightly fibrous and grey. The shoulder, under wing- 

 and tail-coverts, are tinged -with primrose-yellow. 

 This is a straggling visitant during the cold weather, and may 

 be distinguished by its note " charr." 



36. PJiylloscopus syh'icultrix, n. sp. [Ibis, Vol. II, 53.] 



Mr. Blyth remarks on this — " a new species, differing from all bnt 

 the European sibilatrix in the minute size of its first primary, 

 in which character however sibilatrix exceeds it." 



Length 4± wing 2£, 1st quill ^, 2nd 1|£, 3rd and 4th 1 T V 

 Tail 1 t 7 q. Bill \ ; to gape i§. Upper mandible brown with 

 a yellow edge, lower yellow with a patch of brown on the 

 terminal half. Tarsus \% pale yellowish-brown, yellower on 

 the under surface of the toes and browner on the claws. Upper 

 parts olive-green, brownish in some lights, especially on the 

 crown. Line over the eye, a row of feathers on the lower half 

 of eye-circle, and part of the cheeks, pale chrome-yellow ; loral 

 space blackish-olive. Feathers of the wings and tail hair- 

 brown, broadly margined with olive-green, a spot of yellowish- 

 white marks, the tip of the outer web of the first 5 2nd 

 coverts. U/nder-parts pale yellowish or primrose white, varying 

 in tint. The under-shaffc of all the tail feathers white, and 

 the margin of the inner web of the 3 outer tail-feathers faint 

 white. The size of the bill differs considerably in different 

 individuals. 



It is very numerous here during the months of April and May, 

 and again in October and September, on its migrations. 



37. PJiylloscojjus coronatus, (Temm. and Schleg.) 



This species is noticeable from having a faint line of yellow on 

 the crown like a Begulus, and is identical with that of the 



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