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with the termination of the coronal streaks of Culicipeta Burkii, of 

 Phylloscopus reguloides, and of certain other species of the latter genus. 

 Colour ashy-green, purer green on the wings and rump; a slight 

 whitish cross-band on the wing, formed by the tips of the greater coverts ; 

 lower-parts dull albescent throughout; shoulders of the wings infe- 

 riorly, with the axillaries, yellow : bill duskyish above, pale yellow be- 

 low ; and legs yellowish-brown. Length four inches and three-quar- 

 ters, of which the tail is an inch and seven- eighths ; wing two inches 

 and three-quarters ; bill to gape five-eighths ; tarse eleven-sixteenths. 

 Southern India, where discovered by Mr. Jerdon. 



3. Ph. rama, (Sykes), P. Z. S. 1832, p. 89. Common in Southern 

 India* 



Caiamoherpe, Boie (1822). Three species of this genus are com- 

 mon in Bengal, and it would seem over India generally ; visiting the 

 plains, however, only during the cold season. 



1. C. arundinacea, (? Lin.)f : Sylvia turdoides, Tern.; Agrobates 

 brunnescens, Jerdon. This bird requires, however, to be actually 

 compared with European specimens. Length of a female seven inches 

 and three-quarters, by ten and a half in expanse; wing three and five- 

 eighths ; tail three and three-eighths ; bill to gape an inch and one- 

 sixteenth ; and tarse one and one-eighth. 



2. C. montana, (Horsfield). Very common, and comes a good 

 deal into gardens, frequenting pea-rows and the like. In wilder 

 marshy districts, such as the swampy thickets in the vicinity of the 

 salt-water lake near Calcutta, not one is to be met with, while both 

 the other species abound ; and the next is rarely seen in the haunts 

 of C. montana. Prinia flaviventris and Phylloscopus tristis frequent the 

 same places as C. agricola, but keep more to the higher jungle where 

 there happens to be any ; and I have observed no other Phylloscopus or 

 Prinia in the localities proper to those above mentioned. C. montana 

 measures five inches and three-quarters, by seven and a quarter ; wing 



* I have just been looking over the series of these birds with Lord Arthur Hay, and 

 it is his lordship's opinion that nitidus should be referred to Phyllopneuste, (in which 

 case I believe that the British sibilalrix should accompany it,) and that reguloides and 

 pulcher should rank in Culicipeta; which, L think, would certainly bring schisticeps 

 into the same division. His lordship does not quite agree with me in referring modes- 

 tus to Phylloscopus, but I cannot bring myself to accede to placing this last bird as a 

 Reyulus. 



t Prof. Behn assures me, that this is certainly distinct from Turdus arundinaceus, 

 Lin., of Europe ; in which case it must stand as C. brunnescens, (Jerdon). 



