968 Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting ; 1842. [No. 143. 



European species. It is very numerous in the vicinity of Calcutta during 

 the hyemal months, and is likewise common in Nepal. 



Ph. lugubris, Nobis. Closely allied to the last, but averaging a 

 rather larger size, with tarsi measuring fully three-quarters of an inch, 

 instead of barely eleven-sixteenths of an inch, and they are likewise 

 slightly darker than in the other. The whole upper-parts are also of 

 a darker shade, particularly the head which is much darker and tinged 

 with dusky ; throat, breast, and flanks, dashed with ashy-grey, having 

 traces of yellowish, and altogether this species is conspicuously of 

 a darker and more fuscous shade than the preceding one. Its note 

 again is different, and much louder than that of the last. Also common 

 near Calcutta during the cold season ; and a Madras specimen of the 

 young has been forwarded by Mr. Jerdon. The young or rather 

 second plumage of this species is much yellower than the adults, as 

 in the corresponding garb of Ph. trochilus and Ph. rufus.* 



Culicipeta, Nobis, n. g. General structure of Phylloscopus, but 

 having a narrow Flycatcher's bill and armature of rictus, the ridge of 

 the upper mandible angulated, and the breadth of the bill evenly 

 attenuating. 



C. Burkii ; Sylvia Burkii, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 153 ; Musci- 

 capa bilineata, Lesson, Rev. Zool. par la Soc. Cuv. 1839, p. 104. Length 

 four inches and seven-eighths, by six inches and a half in alar expanse ; 



* Having lately received British specimens of Ph. trochilus and Ph. rufus, I have 

 rewritten some of the above descriptions ; and a long while subsequently to my first 

 describing most of the species noticed in the present report, a packet of skins of this 

 genus was received from Mr. Hodgson, amongst which I think I correctly recognised 

 the Ph. trochilus and Ph. rufus, but Ph. sibilatrix was not among them, which 

 species, together with the two preceding British kinds, are mentioned in the catalogue 

 of Dr. lioyle's birds procured at Saharunporeand its vicinity. Mr. Hodgson sent seven 

 species of Phylloscopus, including the modestus, to which are to be added my re- 

 guloides, nitidus, magnirostris, lugubris, tristis, and fuscatus; making thirteen 

 Indian species, and Dr. Royle's sibilatrix, if different from my nitidus, should con- 

 stitute a fourteenth. Mr. H. also sent the European Phyllopneuste hippolais (Sylvia 

 hippolais of Temminck, or a closely allied species), and the Culicipeta Burkii 

 above described. Four of these species of Phylloscopus have the central coronal 

 mark, and the specimen of modestus sent was in new plumage, with a more strongly 

 marked mesial coronal streak than usual, thus resembling the figure in Gould's ' Birds 

 of Europe.' All were temporarily returned, so that 1 have not them now by me for 

 reference. 



In a paper since forwarded by Mr. Hodgson, the species with central coronal streak 

 are separated from the others ; but I much prefer to arrange them as slight divisions 

 merely of the same genus. 



