592 Notices and Descriptions of various new [No. 164. 



There are others in the Himalaya, which I formerly considered 

 identical with Ph. trochilus and Ph. rufa of Europe; but I had no 

 specimens of the latter to compare them with. Ph. trochilus is stated 

 by Mr. Gould to have been received from Western India, and by 

 M. Temminck from Japan ; and Ph. sibilatrix is enumerated in 

 Dr. Royle's list, but the allied Ph, nitidus may have been mistaken for 

 it. The species of this genus require very minute examination. 



Mr. Hodgson separates those which have a pale coronal mesial line, 

 and, in some instances only, rather a thicker bill, approaching in form to 

 that of Phyllopneuste, by the same Abrornis. I can only regard them 

 as forming a slight section of the genus : and the next might form an 

 analogous third section. 



Ph. schisticeps, (Hodgson). Resembles Culieipeta Burkii (J. A. S. 

 XII, 968, v. Muscicapa bilineata, Lesson, v. Cryptolopha auricapilla, 

 Swainson,) in colouring, except that the head and nape are uniform 

 deep ash-grey ; having the rest of the upper-parts bright yellowish- 

 green, the entire under-parts deep yellow, and the two outer tail-fea- 

 thers white on their inner web : the bill, however, is not depressed, as in 

 the Culieipeta, but is thicker than usual (approaching in this respect to 

 Phyllopneuste), and comparatively short : the claws also are shorter, 

 stronger, and more hooked, than in Culieipeta, better adapted for clinging, 

 as in other Phylloscopi. Length about four inches and a quarter, of wing 

 two inches to two and one-eighth, and of tail an inch and five-eighths ; 

 bill to gape half an inch ; and tarse five-eighths : colour of bill blackish 

 above, yellow below ; and of feet yellowish. The young have looser 

 plumage, and all the colours less intense. Inhabits the Himalaya, and 

 the mountainous parts of Arracan. 



Of the species with pale mesial coronal streak, I have already de- 

 scribed Ph. reguloides, J. A. S. XI, 191, and XII, 963,— and Ph. 

 modestus, (Gould), ibid., — both of which occur likewise in the Hima- 

 laya and in Southern India, and the latter in Arracan. To these may 

 now be added — 



Ph. pulcher, (Hodgson). Allied to Ph. modestus, but larger, and 

 distinguished by having the three outer tail-feathers wholly white, 

 with the exception of the terminal half of their outer webs, together 

 with the tip of the inner web of the ante-penultimate, and slightly of 

 the penultimate feathers. Colour of the upper- parts dark olive-green, 

 with a rufous cast, and two pale rufescent bars across the wings; 



