62 TURDIDiE. 



Sylvia trochiloides {Simd.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 217. no. 3080(1869). 

 Phylloscopus viridipemiis {Blyth) apud Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 82. 

 I'hylloscopus (Reguloides) iiavo-olivaceus, Hume, Sir. F. v. p. 504 



(1877J. 

 Plivllopneuste viridipennis (Blytli) apud Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 122 



(1877). 

 Regidoides flavo-olivaceus {Hume), Hume, Str. F. vi. p. 358 (1878). 



8prin(] j^T^umage. General colour of the upper parts olive-green, 

 very slightly yellower on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; eye- 

 stripe well-defined, pale ycUow, and extending well on to the nape ; 

 mesial line on the crown pale olive-green, ill-defined, extending as 

 far as the nape ; lores, the feathers behind the eye, the head and 

 nape between the mesial line and each eye-stripe dark olive, sharply 

 defined from the paler hack ; wing-coverts brown, broadly edged 

 with olive-green, the median wing-coverts with narrow yellow tips, 

 and the greater wing-coverts with narrow yellow tips on the inside 

 webs, and broad yellow tips on the outside webs, forming a very 

 conspicuous lower bar and a much less conspicuous upper bar 

 across the wings ; quills brown, with very narrow pale tips, the 

 outside webs edged with yellowish green, and emarginated as far 

 as the sixth ; tail-feathers brown, the outside webs edged with 

 yellowish green, and the inside webs with a narrow well-defined 

 greyish- white margin, which on the two outside feathers on each 

 side becomes broader, still more sharply defined, and almost pure 

 white. General colour of the underparts greyish white, whitest 

 ou the centre of the belly, and more or less suffused with yellow 

 throughout ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and thighs bright 

 yellow ; inner margin of quills huffish white. Bill Acrocophaline ; 

 upper mandible dark brown, under mandible pale. Legs, feet, and 

 claws dark. Third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest ; second primary about equal to the tenth ; the exposed part 

 of the bastard primary measures 0"65 to 0'55 inch. Length of wing, 

 male 2-4 to 2-25 iuchcs, female 2-25 to 2-1 ; length of tail, male 

 2-0 to 1-85, female 1-28 to 1-7 ; length of culmen 0-4 to U-4(3. 



Summer plumage. Greyer above and below, with the wing-bars 

 more or less abraded. 



Autumn jjlumage. After the autumn moult, the olive-green of 

 the upper parts is replaced by yellowish green, the eye-stripe and 

 the wing-bars are a brighter yellow, and the underparts are still 

 more suflused with yellow than they are in spring. 



Winter plumage. The changes produced by abrasion in winter are 

 very similar to those produced in summer. 



]31yth's Crowned Willow-Warbler is supposed to breed in the 

 alpine districts of the Himalayas from Nepal eastwards. It winters 

 in both the Indian and Burma peninsulas. 



a-i. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



k, I, m. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodyson). India Museum. 



n. Ad. sk. N.W. Ilimalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 



o. Ad. sk. Calcutta. E. Blyth, Esq. [P.]. 



p. S ad. sk. Nampung, Kakhycn Dr. Anderson [C.]. , 

 hills, Feb. 19, 1875. 



