62 YELLOW-F.ROWED WARBLER. 



tains of Lake Baikal northward to the .Vrctic circle. The bird 

 passes through Mongolia and North China on migration, and winters 

 in South China, Assam, Burma and North-eastern India (Seebohm). 

 Canon Tristram obtained it at Jericho ; and Severtzoff found it 

 nesting in Turkestan up to about 8,500 feet. 



The account of the finding in Kashmir of a nest and eggs supposed 

 to belong to this species, was given by Mr. W. E. Brooks in ' The 

 Ibis' for 1872; and reproduced in the 4th Edition of ' Yarrell's 

 British Birds,' as well as in Mr. Dresser's ' Birds of Europe ' ; but 

 the parent bird was subsequently distinguished by Mr. Brooks 

 himself as P. hwnii. Seebohm obtained the first authenticated nest 

 of the typical Yellow-browed Warbler, on June 26th, 1877, in the 

 forest between the Kurayika and the Yenesei. It was built in a 

 slight tuft of moss and bilberry, domed, exactly like the nest of 

 our Willow-Wren, and composed of dry grass and moss, with a 

 lining of reindeer-hair. The eggs, 6 in number, are pure white, 

 thickly spotted at the larger end with reddish-brown ; measurements 

 •6 in. by '45 in., one of them being figured by Seebohm on PL 10 

 of his ' British Birds,' a work which contains the best account 

 extant of this Warbler. In its habits, says Gatke, this bird has little 

 affinity with the restless Golden-crests, which it only resembles in 

 size and the double bar across the wings ; and in Heligoland it is 

 universally known by a name equivalent to ' Barred AVillow-AVarbler.' 

 When it alights on a tree, it begins at the lower branches and works 

 steadily up to the top, searching for its insect food. Gatke describes 

 the note as hyiif^ a little drawn out. 



The bird in autumn has the crown olive-brown, with a very pale 

 ill-defined line down the centre ; a strong yellowish-white stripe 

 over the eye from the base of the bill to the nape ; a short streak of 

 the same colour beneath the eye, and a narrow dusky band passing 

 through the eye to the ear-coverts ; neck, back and rump olive- 

 green ; ridge of the wing bright lemon-colour ; wing-feathers dusky, 

 with pale yellow edges which become broader and whiter on the 

 secondaries ; two conspicuous bands of lemon-colour across the 

 coverts (in the Golden-crest these markings are spot-like) ; tail 

 brown, the inner web of the outer feathers edged with white ; under 

 parts pale yellow on the flanks, whiter on the belly, bill brown, paler 

 at the base ; legs and toes brown, with the under surface of the toes 

 inclining to yellow. In summer the green and yellow of the plumage 

 have largely suffered from abrasion, and the general tints are olive- 

 grey. Length 3-8 in. ; wing 2 "15 in. 



