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tail-feathers brown, the outside webs margined with olive, and the 

 inside webs, except those of the two centre feathers, having a narrow 

 well-defined greyish-white margin. General colour of the under- 

 parts nearly white, greyer on the breast and flanks, and slightly 

 suffused with yellow ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and thighs 

 pale yellow ; inner margin of quills greyish white. Bill Acrocepha- 

 line ; upper mandible dark brown, under mandible pale. Legs, 

 feet, and claws bluish brown. Third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 longest ; second primnry generally intermediate in length between 

 the seventh and eighth, in rare instances between the sixth 

 and seventh ; exposed portion of the bastard primary 0-5 to OGo 

 inch. Length of wing, male 2 b to 2-3 inches, female 2-3 to 2-18 ; 

 tail, male 2-05 to 1-9, female 1-9 to 1-8 ; culmen 0-45 to O-o ; 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Summer plumage. The colour of the upper parts becomes greyer 

 by abrasion, the pale tips to the quills are lost, the lower wing-bar 

 becomes narrow and obscure, and nearly all ti'ace of yellow on the 

 underparts is abraded. 



Autumn pi umaf/c'. Similar to the spring plumage, but having the 

 eye-stripe, the wing-bar, and the underparts suffused with pale 

 greenish yellow, causing the upper wing-bar to be very obscure. 



Winter plumage. The changes which take place by abrasion are 

 similar to those which take place in summer. The wing-bar is 

 often entirely lost ; but the underparts generally retain some of the 

 greenish yellow. 



The Indian A^'illow-Warbler breeds in Cashmere, and winters in 

 the plains of India. An example was obtained by Meves in the 

 Ural mountains, and another on Heligoland by Ludwig Gatke. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Simla. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 c. Ad. sk. N.\S . Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 rf, e. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas (C'op^. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 G. Marshall'). 



f. Ad. sk. Murree. Capt. J. Biddulph [CI. 



g. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 h, i. $ ad. sk. Futtighur, N.W. India, Henry Seebohm, Esq. ''P.]. 



Sept. 14-16 {A. Ander- 

 son). 



k. Ad. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



I, m. Ad. sk. Madi-as. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



5. PhyUoscopus plumbeitarsus. 



Svlvia (Phvllopneuste) coronata (Teni/n.), apud Midd. Sibir. Reise, 



' Vm). p. 182 (1851), apud Badde, Reis. Sibir.. Viiy. p. 263 (1863). 



Phvlloscopus plumbeitarsus, Swht/ioe, Ibis, 1861, p. 330; Seebohm, 



ibis, 1877, p. 76 ; Hume, Sir. F. vi. p. 355 (1878). 

 Sylvia plumbeitarsa (Stcinh.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no. 3061 



■(18U9). 

 PhyUopneustes middendorfii, Meres, Of v. k. Vei.-Ak. Forh. 1871, 

 p. 758. 



