46 Ornithological Observations in the Sutlej valley, [No. 1, 



respects still deficient and very difficult. In West Tibet I have 

 procured several peculiar and apparently new species which no doubt 

 visit northern India during the cold weather, but as they have not 

 been yet obtained here, I intend to give of them a more detailed 



account at some future occasion. At the present I shall only 



mention a few of the better known species. 



142 Neornis flavolivacea, H o d g s. (II. 183); rare about 



Nachar and Chini between 6 and 10,000 feet ; at the latter locality 



I generally found it between apricot trees. Jerclon (III. 872) quotes 



Blyth's supposition as to the identity of this species with Hororms 



fuliginiventer* Hodgs. 



143. Prylloscopus trochilus, Linn. (II. 192), is common all 



through the Sutlej valley, between elevations of 5 and 11,000 feet ; it 



breeds near Chini. 



144 Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth, (II. 193) and 



145 Phylloscopus aepinis, Tick. (11.194), are comparatively 

 rare, but both of them are during the summer more common m W. 

 and central Tibet. The latter species is exceedingly like the European 

 Ph sibilatrix and perhaps identical with it. 



146 Phylloscopds ? sp. I procured one specimen of an apparently 

 new species near Nachar; it is not in very good preservation, but 

 the attention of any future traveller may be directed to it by the 

 following short description. 



4bove uniform olivaceous brown with a slight rufous tint, especially 

 on the back and on the outer webs of the wing feathers ; wings and 

 tail dusky; below albescent, purer on the chin and throat, towards 

 the lower tail coverts with a gradually increasing rufous tinge ; lores 

 dusky, supercilium pale-whitish, front edges of wings and lower wing 

 coverts white, with a slight yellow tint ; wings 2J inch ; tail 1J inch. 

 In general colouring, this species resembles Phyllopneuste rama, 

 Syhes, but it is decidedly smaller. 



147 Reguloides occipitalis, J e r d„ QL 196), rare about Chini. 



148 Regul. trochiloides, Sund., (II. 196) is common all throng? 

 the valley from Kotegurh to Chini, where it breeds between 9,00( 

 and 10,000 feet. 



* Vide Ibis, 1867, pp. 21-22. 

 f See Ibis, 1867, p. 24. 



