1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. 967 



than in Ph. rufus J, except the under-surface of the toes which is yellow ; 

 bill also blackish, tinged with yellow at base of lower mandible, and the 

 gape also yellow. Length four inches and a half, by six inches and a 

 half across ; of wing two inches and one-eighth ; tail an inch and three- 

 quarters ; bill to gape half an inch ; and tarse seven-sixteenths of an 

 inch. General colour greyish-brown, beneath paler and albescent, a 

 faint rufous tinge on the breast, and no trace of yellowish on the lower 

 tail-coverts, nor elsewhere than as described.* 



Ph. viridanus, N obis ; Phyllopneuste rufa, apud nos, XI, 191. "J" Allied 

 to Ph. rufus, but of a weaker and much less brownish green above, and 

 the under-parts much more albescent ; the tarse shorter, but the length of 

 wings and relative length of primaries the same : the colour of the tarse 

 is also different, being of a greenish-leaden hue by no means dark. 

 Length four inches and five-eighths to four and three-quarters, by 

 seven inches and a quarter across ; of wing two inches and three-eighths, 

 and tail an inch and seven-eighths to two inches: bill above three- 

 eighths of an inch from forehead, and nearly five-eighths from gape; 

 tarse eleven-sixteenths of an inch. J Irides dusky. Bill dusky horn- 

 colour above, the under mandible yellowish except towards the tip. 

 Colour of the upper-parts a light dull olive-green, having a greenish 

 cast when compared with those of PA. rufus; of the under-parts green- 

 ish-albescent ; and a narrow pale greenish streak over the eye : wings 

 and tail light dusky, with greenish margins to the tertiaries and tail- 

 feathers, and a slight whitish bar on the wing formed by the tips of the 

 larger coverts. The note of this bird is weak, and is expressible by 

 the sound tiss-yip, frequently uttered, but never repeated a number 

 of times in continuous succession like the much louder tsih-tseh of the 



* There is the faintest possible greenish tinge on the upper-parts of some that I have 

 6ince procured, which colour is most developed on the margins of the secondaries, to- 

 wards their base. 



f Ph. affinis, of a catalogue of birds obtained in the vicinity of Calcutta, published 

 in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for August and September, 1843. 



J This species varies considerably in size. Of two recent examples before me, 

 one measures five inches and one-eighth by seven and a half; wing two inches and 

 a half; tail two inches; and tarse three-quarters of an inch: while the other is only 

 four inches and a half by six and five-eighths ; wing two inches and a quarter; tail an 

 inch and three-quarters; and tarse eleven-sixteenths of an inch. I observe also that 

 Ph. modestus varies a great deal in size. An unusually large one just obtained measures 

 four inches and a half by seven inches across; wing two inches and a quarter, tail 

 an inch and three-quarters ; and tarse eleven-sixteenths of an inch. 



