1842.] Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. 191 



Ph. Reevesii, Gray, Zoo/. Misc., which was procured by Dr. McClelland 

 in Assam : the Ph. cmruleocephala, Vigors and Gould, seems but 

 doubtfully referrible to this group. In Western India, the European 

 Ph. albifrons (or ruticilla) is met with, and very probably also, the Ph. 

 tithys, though I am not aware for certain of the latter having been ob- 

 served further to the eastward than on the bare rocky hills about 

 Smyrna, where it is common ; the Ph. albifrons is included by M. 

 Temminck among the birds of Japan.* 



47. Phillopneuste reguloides, Nobis. This species approaches very 

 closely to the Regulus modestus, Gould ; but to judge from recollection 

 of the original specimen of that rare bird, and also from the dimensions 

 ascribed to the second specimen obtained (vide An. Nat. Hist., ii, 310), 

 which was in England, the former having been killed in Dalmatia, 

 I conclude it to be different, and to be further removed from the genus 

 Regulus, an undescribed crestless species of which is also before me. 

 Length 4f inches, of wing 2^ inches, and tail If inch ; bill to forehead 



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nearly £ inch, and to gape - inch; tarse - inch; 4th and 5th quills 

 equal and longest, the 3d and 6th a trifle shorter, and also equal. Ge- 

 neral colour of the upper parts yellowish olive-green, brightest on the 

 wings, which have the inferior margin pure yellow anteriorly, and the 

 tips of their greater and lesser coverts pale yellowish, forming two 

 cross-bands ; under-parts albescent, streaked with yellow as in Ph. 

 trochilus : sides of the crown ashy, mingled with olive-green, and pass- 

 ing into dusky on the sides of the occiput, being traversed by a con- 

 spicuous sulphur-yellow superciliary streak; along the centre of the head 

 the ashy tint is wanting, leaving a narrow greenish-yellow mesial line, 

 best seen when the bird is held at a little distance. Bill, which is 

 strictly that of the present group, and not of Regulus, dusky-brown above, 

 the lower mandible yellow: feet delicate, and apparently light-brown 

 tinged with plumbeous. The Ph. rufa, or British Chiffchaff, I may 

 remark, is common in the neighbourhood of Calcutta during the cool 

 season. 



Regulus inornatus, Nobis. Length 3 J inches, of wing 2^ inches, and 

 tail If inch : bill to forehead f inch, and to gape nearly £ inch ; tarse 



* Ph. atrata is common in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, and extends throughout 

 the Indian peninsula, where two new species have lately been described by Mr. 

 Terdon, in his supplement, as Ph. Major and Ph. super ciliaris. — E. B. 



