46 TURDID^. 



Phyllopneuste plumbeitarsa (Sivink.), Stvinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. .3n6 ; Ifo7nei/er, Joura. Orn. 1872, p. 206; Prjev. Poivlei/'s Orn. 



Misc. ii. p. 17i (1877) ; David et Oust. Ois. Chme, p. 270"(1877). 

 Phyllopneuste (Phyllobasileus) covon&tvis i^Temm.), (qmd Homeyer, 



ji.uni. Orn. 1872, p. 207. 

 Phylloscopus excoronatus, Homeyer, Juurn. Orn. 1872, p. 207. 

 Phyllopneuste iutermedia, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 12.5 (187.3, 



see Ibis, 1876, p. 81). 

 Hypolais gTaminis, Sererfz. loc. dt. (1873). 

 Ph-silopneuste middendorfii {Meves), Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 



1876, p. 140. 



Phyllop.seuste plumbeitarsa (Swinhoe), Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 120 

 (1877). 



This species differs from the preceding solely in having the median 

 as well as the greater wing-coverts with pale tips. It appears to 

 me to be a very doulitful species ; and if Severtzoif's Phyllopneuste 

 intermedia should really prove to be an intermediate form between 

 it and P. viridamis, Blyth, it will have to be degraded to the rank 

 of a subspecies. I have not seen Severtzoff's types. 



MiddendorfJ's Willow-Warbler breeds in Turkestan and South 

 Siberia, from the Ural mountains to the Araoor. It passes through 

 the island of Hainan on migration, and winters in the Burma penin- 

 sula. 



a. $ ad. sk. Lake Baical, July 7, 1870 H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.] 



{Dr. Dybuwsky). 



6. Phylloscopus teneUipes. 



Phylloscopus tenellipes, Strinhoe, Ibis, 1800, p. 63 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 



1877, p. 7.5 ; Hume, Str. F. vi. p. .354 (1878). 



Sylvia tenellipes {Swinhoe), Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 21 6. no. 3059 (1869). 

 Phyllopneuste tenellipes (Swin/ioe), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 356; 



David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 269 (1877). 

 PhvUopseuste tenellipes (Swinhoe), Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 121 



(1877). 



Spring plumage. General colour of the upper parts olive-brown, 

 darker on the head, and shading into russet-brown on the rump ; 

 eye-stripe narrow, well defined, greyish white, extending well onto 

 the nape ; lores and the feathers behind the eye dark olive-brown ; 

 wing-coverts brown, the lesser coverts broadly edged with bufKsh 

 brown, the median coverts paler at the tips, forming an obscure 

 upper wing-bar, the greater coverts with broad buffish-white tips 

 to the outer webs, forming a distinct lower wing-bar ; quills brown, 

 narrowly tipped with bufKsh white, and edged on the outside webs 

 with pale huffish brown, the sixth quill perceptibl,y emarginated as 

 well as the preceding quills. Tail-feathers brown, the outside webs 

 margined with pale biiffish brown, and the inside webs with huffish 

 white. General colour of the underjjarts white, shading into pale 

 greyish buff on the breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts pale yellow ; inner margin of quills pale 

 huff. Bill slender, Acrocephaline ; upper mandible dark brown, 

 lower mandible pale. Legs, feet, and claws pale flesh-colour. Third, 



