2. PHYLLOSCOPUS, 51 



vrhite, very slii^htly suffused with yellow, greyest on the breast and 

 flanks ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and thighs pale yellow; inner 

 mai'giu of quills huffish white. Bill Acrocephaline ; upper mandible 

 dark brown, under mandilde pale, slightly darker towards the tip. 

 Legs, feet, aud claws light brown. Third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 nearly equal aud longest ; second primary intermediate in length 

 between the seventh and eighth ; the exposed part of the bastard 

 primary measures 0-55 to 0-7 inch. Length of wing, male 2'6.5 to 

 2-5 inches, female 2-.5 to 2-3 ; length of tail, male 2"15 to 2-0, female 

 2-0 to 1-9 ; length of culmon O'o to 0-5S. 



Summer plumage. Upper parts gi'e^'er ; most of the yellow on the 

 breast and flanks abraded ; upper wing-bar often nearly lost ; lower 

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

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



Autumn plumcoje. Similar to the spring plumage in minor details, 

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

 green, and the underparts sufl'used all over with pale yellow ; the 

 eye-stripes and the mesial line on the crown are pale yeUow instead 

 of j'ellowish white. 



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



Jerdon's Crowned Willow- Warbler breeds in Cashmere, and east- 

 wards thi'oughout the Himalayas. "Winters in Lower Bengal and 

 the Tenasserim provinces. 



a. Ad. sk. Nepal. _ B. IL Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Duplicate type of HippoUik sicainsoni, Hodgs.) 



h. 5ad.sk. Futtigurli, X.W. India, Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Apr. 7 {A. A)ifJer,<o/i). 

 c, d. Ad. sk. Cashmere (!>;•. lielletc). India Museum. 



e. Ad.sk. Madras. Dr.Jerdon. (Type of iSV/ Wa 



ralidirostris, Jerdon,_^<fe Gray.) 



1 1 . Phylloscopus reguloides. 



Phvllopneuste reguloides, Bhfth, J. A. S. Bern/, xi. p. 191 (1S42) ; id. 



Ann. Xaf. Ilkt. xii. p. if8 (184;^) ; Hudys. MS. Drmvi/u/s (in the 



Brit. Mus.) of B. of Xepal, Fcusseres, pi. 5'.), and App. pi. 4-3. 



no. 8(52, iinde Hudgs. Grai/'s Zool. 3Iiyc. p. 82. no. 862 (1844). 

 riiylloscopus reguloides (B/'i/t/t), Bh/th, J. A. S. Benff. xii. p. 9m (1843). 

 Phvllopneuste nitidus (Bh/th) apud Gray, Cat. Mamm. 8f B. Nepal 



Coll. JIodf/.<. p. m (184(i)- 

 Acanthiza trochiloides, Stmdev. Ann. Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 2.52 (1846). 

 Cidiccpeta trochiloides (Sund.), Bli/th, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 442 



(1847). 

 Eegulus trochiloides (Siind.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 175 (1848). 

 Keguloides tvocliiloides (Sund.), Bh/th, Cat. B. Mii.^. As. S„c. p. 184 



(184!)); Ilorsf. cV Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. .34;:{ (18.54); 



Jcrdon, B. India, ii. p. 196 (18C..3) ; Beavan, Ihis, 1868, p. 73 ; 



Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 4^58 ; Bli/th ii- Wuhhn. B. Burnt, p. 105 (1875). 

 xVbrornis trochiloides (Sund.), Bp. Cons/>. i. p. 290 (1850). 

 Phyllob.vsileus trochiloides (Sund.), Cubani-'f, Journ. Oni. 1853, p. 90. 

 Reguloides viridipennis (Bli/fh) apud Jcrdon, B. of India, ii. p. 198 



(1^(;3^ ; Sculh/, Sir. F. iv. p. 149 (1876) ; David et Gust. Ois. Chine, 



p. 276 (1877)! 



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