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fourth, and fifth primaries longest ; second primary equal to the 

 seventh ; bastard primary 05 to 0*53 inch. Length of -wing, male 

 2-5 to 2-35 inches, female 2-35 to 2-2 ; tail, male 2-0 to 1-9, female 

 1-9 to 1-8; culmen 0-5; tarsus 0-73. 



Summer plumage. Upper and underparts greyer ; "wing-bars more 

 or less lost by abrasion ; the pale tips to the quills have disappeared. 



Autumn phimaye. The olive-brown of the upper parts replaced 

 by russet-brown ; eye-stripe and underparts more suffused with 

 buff. 



Winter plumage. Somewhat buffer than the summer plumage. 



The Pale-legged Willow- Warbler is supposed to breed in Japan, 

 to pass through China on migration, and to winter in the Burma 

 peninsula. 



The British JIuseum does not possess a skin of this species. The 

 type is in the Swiiihoe collection in my possession, and other examples 

 are in the collection of Allan Hume, Esq. 



7. Phylloscopus magnirostris. 



Phvlloscopus magnirostris, Bhjth, J. A. S. Benq. xii. p. 9G6 ("1843) ; 



HorKf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p." 3.36 (1854); Jerdon, 



B. ind. ii. p. 191 (18(i3) ; Brooks, J. A. S. Beng. xli. pt. 2. p. 79 



(1872); Brooks, Ibis, 1872, p. 26; Legc/e, Ibis, 1874, p. 22; 



Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 77 ; Hume, Sir. F. vi. p. 352 (1878) ; Legge, 



Birds of Ceylon, p. 553 (1879). 

 Phvlloscopus javanicus (Horsf.), apiid Blyth,J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 393 



(1844), apudBhjth,J. A.'S. Beng. xiv.p.591 (1845), apud Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 185 (1849). 

 Phylloscopus indicus (Jerdon), apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 593 



{lSi5, parti m). 

 Sylvia mag-nirostris {Bh/th), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no. 3056 



■■(18G9) ; Gray, op. cit.\. p. 217. no. 3081 (1869). 

 PhvUopseuste javanica (Bonap.), apud Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 119 



(1877). 



Spring plumage. General colour of the upper parts dark olive- 

 green, slightly darker on the head and somewhat greener on the 

 rump ; eye-stripe well defined, pale yellowish white, extending 

 to the nape ; lores and the feathers behind the eye dark olive ; 

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

 median coverts paler at the tip, forming an indistinct upper wing- 

 bar, greater coverts with pale yellowish-white tips to the outer webs, 

 forming a conspicuous lower wing-bar ; quills brown, the outer M'ebs 

 edged with olive-green and emargiuated as far as the sixth ; tail- 

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

 side webs, except those of the two centre feathers, with a narrow 

 greyish-white margin. General colour of the underparts pale greyish 

 yellow, greyest on the breast and flanks ; axillaries, under wing- 

 coverts, and thighs greyish yellow ; inner margin of quills pale buif. 

 Bill Acrocephaline, m\ich decurved at the tip, with the rictal bristles 

 well developed, approaching the ^Sluscicajiine type ; upper mandible 

 dark broMu, under mandible pale, darker towards the tip. Legs, 

 feet, and claws bluish brown. Fourth and fifth primaries longest ; 



