1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 591 



five-eighths ; hind half an inch." Ibid. N. B. I greatly suspect that 

 this is merely the young of the preceding, from comparing a specimen 

 sent by Mr. Hodgson of the latter, with a description I took of the 

 former from a specimen which that naturalist took with him to 

 England. 



The Prinia olivacea and Pr. icterica, Strickland, P, Z. S., June, 

 1844, are two species from Fernando Po, which are probably referable 

 to this type. 



PhylloscopuSy Boie. This genus is greatly developed in India, and 

 the species may be ranged into three sections. 



Firstly, those immediately allied to Ph. trochilus, &c. of Europe, of 

 which I have already described six, as occurring in the vicinity of Cal- 

 cutta during the cold season. These are, — 1. Ph. fuscatus, nobis, J. A. 

 S. XI, 113. Of this I have now obtained several specimens, and one or 

 two have been forwarded from Arracan, — 2. Ph. javanicus, ( ? Horsf.) ; 

 Ph. magnirostris, nobis, J. A. S. XII, 966. Rare in the neighbour- 

 hood of Calcutta, and occurs likewise in Arracan, — 3. Ph. lugubris, 

 nobis, XII, 968. Common, and also occurs in Southern India, — 

 4. Ph. viridanus, nobis, XII, 967. Very common, and abundant also 

 in the Himalaya and in Arracan, — 5. Ph. tristis, nobis, XII, 966. 

 Common in swampy places, wherever there is jungle ; and diffused 

 generally over India,* — 6. Ph. niiidus, nobis, XII, 965. India gene- 

 rally. To these may now be added — 



7. Ph. brunneus, nobis. Length about four inches, of wing two and 

 three-sixteenths, and tail one and three-quarters ; bill to gape exceed- 

 ing half an inch, and tarse three-quarters. A plain brown species, 

 distinguishable from Ph. tristis by the more cinerascent shade of its 

 upper parts, by the absence of any yellow on the axillaries and beneath 

 the shoulder of the wing, which is replaced by faint rufous, by the 

 pale colour of the lower mandible and of the legs, and by the shape of its 

 tail, of which the outermost feathers are a quarter of an inch shorter 

 than the middle ones ; lower parts brownish-albescent. From Arracan, 

 where procured by Captain Phayre. 



8. Ph. affinis, (Tickell), J. A. S. II, 576 : Sylvia indica, Jerdon. 

 Indian peninsula. (Non vidi, and the identification of these is due to 

 Mr. Jerdon.) 



* I also found this species in great abundance in a mango tope near Hooghly, where 

 there was no marshy ground in the immediate vicinity. 



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