1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. 963 



Ph. Reevesii, Gray. A description of this species may not be un- 

 acceptable. It much resembles Ph. ruticilla except in its larger size, 

 in having a conspicuous white wing-patch, and less white upon the 

 forehead. Length six inches and a half, of wing three inches and a 

 quarter to three and three-eighths, and tail two inches and seven-eighths; 

 bill to gape eleven-sixteenths of an inch, and tarse seven-eighths of an 

 inch. The white wing-patch is confined to the exterior margin of 

 the basal half of the secondaries, whereas in the preceding species it 

 extends over both webs of each feather. The female is nearly similar 

 to that of Ph. atrata, but may be distinguished by its more puffy 

 general appearance, the greyer and non-rufescent hue of its under- 

 pays, and especially by the different relative length of the primaries, 

 having the first short one more developed and the second less so, the 

 difference between these being only an inch, whereas in Ph. atrata it 

 is an inch and a half or nearly so. Inhabits Nepal and Assam. 



P. 191. Phylloscopus (Boie) reguloides ; Phyllopneuste reguloides. 

 Nobis, passim. This well marked species is not uncommon in the 

 vicinity of Calcutta during the cool season.* A male measured four 

 inches and seven-eighths in length, by seven inches and a quarter 

 across, wing two inches and a half, and tail an inch and seven-eighths ; 

 a female gave respectively four inches and a half, six inches and seven- 

 eighths, two and three-sixteenths, and an inch and three-quarters : but 

 the generality are intermediate. Upper mandible dusky, the lower 

 yellow ; and legs yellowish-brown tinged with plumbeous. The mesial 

 streak along the crown is broader and more conspicuous than in the 

 next species, particularly on the occiput where it widens and contrasts 

 with dusky on each side. It is readily distinguished from the next by 

 its greater size, brighter colour, the absence of any whitish border to 

 the tertiaries, and by most of the tail-feathers having their inner web 

 margined with white ; also by the plumbeous tinge of its legs. The 

 young, as in Ph. trochilus and Ph. rufus, have their under-parts much 

 brighter yellow than in the adults, during their first winter, and assume 

 the mature dress early in the new year. 



Ph. modestus ; Regulus modestus, Gould : R. inornatus, Nobis, pas- 

 sim. This species, also, one of the European Aves rarissimce, figured by 



* Perhaps it also breeds here, like the next ; at least occasionally, as 1 obtained 

 one so late as March 15th. 



