50 TURDIDJ3. 



wing-bar less distinct ; light tips to the quills entirely abraded ; 

 yellowish-green edges of the quills and tail-feathers much greyer. 



Antmnn phinvtgc. Similar to the spring plumage in minor details, 

 but yellower, the upper parts being green rather than olive-green, 

 and the nnderparts suffused all over with greenish yellow ; the eye- 

 stripes and the mesial line on the crown are greenish yellow instead 

 of greyish white. 



Winter pJumacie. Similar to the summer plumage, but yellower. 



Temminck's Crowned Willow-AVarbler breeds in Japan, in the 

 valley of the Ussxiri, and in the subalpine districts of South-eastern 

 Siberia ; passes along the coasts of China and Formosa on migration, 

 and winters in Java and Malacca. An accidental straggler has been 

 shot on Heligoland. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Yokohama, Japan. Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad., d. Juv. sk. Yokohama, Japan. H. Pryer, Esq. [C.]. 



10. Phylloscopus occipitalis. 



Phylloscopus occipitalis {Bhjth). 



Hippolais swainsoni, Hodgs. MS. Draicings (in the Brit. 3Ius.) of B. 



of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 58. fig. 6, no. 38-5, unde Ilodgs. Gray's Zvol. 



Misc. p. 82. no. 385 (circ. 1844, descr. nidla, 2}artim). 

 PhvllupneiTste occipitalis, Jerdon, fide Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 593 



("1840) ; Jerdon, fide Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 183 (1849). 

 Culicepeta occipitalis (Jerdon), Jide Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 442 



Regiiloides occipitalis (Jerdon), fide Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 196 

 (1863); Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 457; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 29 ; Cock ^ 

 Marshall, Str. F. 1873, p. 355 ; Hume, Nests l^- Eggs Ind. B. 

 p. 362 (1873). 



Sylvia validirostris, Jerdon, fide Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no. 3064 

 (1869). 



Sylna occipitalis, Jerdon, fide Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 217. no. 3085 

 ■ (1869). 



Phylloscopus trochiloides (Siind.) apud Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 81. 



Phylloscopus occipitalis, Jerdon, fide Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 80. 



Phyllopseuste occipitalis (Blyth), Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 119 (1877). 



Sjmnri plumage. General colour of the upper parts olive-green, 

 slightly yellower on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; a well-de- 

 fined narrow yellowish-white eye-stripe extends from the base of 

 bill to the nape ; an irregular yellowish-white mesial line extends 

 from the forehead to the nape : the forehead, the feathers before 

 the eye and behind the eye to the nape, and the crown and nape 

 between the mesial line and each eye-stripe dark olive-green ; wing- 

 coverts olive-green, the median wing-coverts with narrow, and the 

 greater wing-coverts with broad well-defined greyish-white tips, 

 forming two pale bars across each wing ; quills brown, narrowly 

 tipped with greyish white, the outside webs edged with yeUowish 

 green, and emarginated as far as the sixth ; tail-feathers brown, the 

 outside webs edged with yellowish green, and the inside webs, 

 except those of the two centre feathers, with a narrow well-defined 

 greyish-white margin. General colour of the underparts greyish 



