1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 593 



beneath dingy pale green ; a light streak over the eye, and trace of 

 another upon the centre of the crown. Bill dark above, and pale 

 beneath ; the feet brown. Length about four inches and one-eighth, 

 of which the tail measures an inch and five-eighths ; wing two and 

 three-eighths, the space between the tips of the first and second pri- 

 maries three-quarters of an inch : bill to gape half an inch ; and tarse 

 nearly three-quarters. Inhabits Nepal. 



Abrornis castaniceps, Hodgson. " Above vernal-green : belly, vent, 

 and croup, deep yellow. Chin to belly white, passing laterally to soft 

 plumbeous. Top of head chesnut, bounded by black to sides. Legs 

 and bill pale. Length four inches ; bill three- eighths ; tail an inch 

 and five-eighths ; wing one and fifteen-sixteenths ; tarse three-quarters ; 

 central toe and nail seven-sixteenths ; hind five-sixteenths of an inch." 

 Nepal. (Nonvidi) 



Phyllopneuste, Meyer, 1822: Ficedula, Koch, 1811. The latter 

 term, though having the priority, is objectionable as conveying the 

 idea that these birds are fruit-eaters, like the Fauvettes, which deci- 

 dedly is not the case. 



Ph. indicus, nobis. Nearly allied to the European Ph. hippolais> 

 termed Hippolais salicaria by the Prince of Canino, and Sylvia po- 

 lyglotta by Vieillot. Length about five inches and a half, or nearly 

 so ; of wing two and five-eighths to two and three-quarters, its first 

 primary measuring three-quarters of an inch, and the second an inch 

 and one-eighth more, and reaching to within three-eighths of an inch 

 of the extremity of the wing ; tail two inches and a quarter ; bill to 

 gape five-eighths ; and tarse three-quarters of an inch. Colour dark 

 olive-green above, a little infuscated, especially upon the crown, with 

 a well defined dull pale yellow supercilium ; breast tinged with ashy, 

 mingled with dull pale yellowish, the rest of the under-parts dull 

 yellowish-albescent ; a slight band on the wing formed by the pale 

 yellowish tips of some of the greater coverts : bill dusky above, and in 

 part below, the rest yellowish, with conspicuous hair-like rictal setae ; 

 and the legs appear to have been pale leaden. Sent from Nepal by 

 Mr. Hodgson, and from Southern India by Mr. Jerdon. 



2. Ph. occipitalis, Jerdon. Smaller and paler, with a light yellow- 

 ish mark on the middle of the occiput, flanked on either side with 

 blackish, and then with pale yellowish-green, continued as a superci- 

 liary streak from the bill ; the first of these markings corresponding 



