48 TTTRDID^. 



second primary intermediate in length between the seventh and 

 eighth ; exposed portion of bastard primary 0*6 to 0'75 inch. 

 Length of wing, male 2-83 to 2'6 inches, female 2"6 to 2"-i; tail, male 

 2"3 to 2-15, female 2-15 to 2-0 ; eulmen O'oo to 0-6 ; tarsus 0"75. 



Summer jJ^umafje. In abraded plumage the general colour becomes 

 slightly grej-er, the greener margins to the quills are nearly lost, and 

 seldom more than traces of the wing-bars remain. 



Autumn plumage. This scarcelj' differs from the spring plumage, 

 except in having the eye-stripe somewhat yellower and the general 

 colour of the underparts not quite so pale. 



Winter plumage. Similar to the summer plumage, but somewhat 

 greener above and slightly yellower below. 



The Large-billed Willow- Warbler appears to be almost exclusively 

 an Indian species, breeding in Cashmere, and passing through the 

 North-west Provinces on migration. In winter it is found sparingly 

 near Calcutta and Lower Bengal, and is generally distributed over 

 Westei'n. Central, and Southern India as far south as Ceylon. On 

 the eastern coast of the JBay of Bengal it has been found as far as 

 Chusan, and it has been obtained on the South-Andaman islands. 



a. (S ad. sk. Cashmere (Brooks). Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Phylloscopus lugubris. 



Phvllopneuste lugubris, Bli/t/i, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 98 (1843) ; 



JBhith S,- Walcl. B. Burm. p. 105 (1875). 

 Phylioscopus lugubris (Blyth),Bh/t/i, J. A. S.Benff. xii. p. 968 (1843) ; 



id. J. A. S. Beruj. xiv. p. 591 (1845) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 185 (1849j; Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 192 (1863) ; Blanf. J. A. 



S. Bang. xii. pt. 2, p. 53 (1872) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 78 ; Hume, 



Sir. F. vi. p. 355 ( 1878)." 

 Pliyllopneuste trocbilus (Linn.), aptid Hodgs. MS. Draivings (in the 



Brit. Mus.) of B. of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 67. no. 8l51, uncle Hodgs. 



Grog's Zool. Misc. p. S'2. no. 861 ( 1844), ajiud Grag, Cat. Mamm. 



SfB. Nepal Cull. Hodgs. p. 65 (1846). 

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



(\Sib,partim). 

 Phvllopneuste inaanirostris (Bb/th). apud Grag, App. Cat. Mamm. 



^■c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 151 (1846). 

 JRegulus lugubris (Bh/t/i), Grag, Gen. B. i. p. 175 (1848). 

 Abromis lufrubris (Bli/th), Bp. Consp. i. p. 290 (1850). 

 Sylvia lugubris (Blgth), Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 215. no. 3049 (1869). 

 Phyllopseuste lugubris (Blgth), Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 119 (1877). 



This species is very closelj- allied to the preceding, being absolutely 

 identical in colour and in its seasonal changes of plumage, and 

 would scarcely be entitled to specific rank were it not that it appears 

 to have a more eastern geographical range. It is a slightly smaller 

 bird, with a somewhat more rounded wing. The fourth and fifth 

 primaries are longest, and the second primary is about equal to the 

 tenth; exposed portion of bastard primary 0*7 to 0-8 inch. Length 

 of wing, male 2-6 to 2-4 inches, female 2-4 to 2-25 ; tail, male 2-35 

 to 2-0, female 2-0 to 1-85 ; eulmen 0-45 to 0-5 ; tarsus 0-85 to 0-75. 



