2. PHYLLOSCOPirS. 67 



Tytler's "Willow- Warbler breeds in Cashmere, and winters in the 

 plains of India. 



The British Museum does not possess an example of this rare 

 species. I have a skin in my collection obtained by Capt. Biddulph 

 in Cashmere. 



20. Phylloscopus humii. (Plate lY. fig. 1.) 



Abromis tenuiceps, Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. 3f«s.) of 

 Birds of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 57. fig. 8, no. 85 J, unde Hodgs. Gray^s 

 Zool. Misc. p. S2. no. 850 (1844, descr. nulla) ; Grag. Cat. M. ^ 

 Birds Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 06 (1846, descr. nulla) ; Modgs. J. A. 

 S. B. xxiv. p. 575 (1856, descr. nulla). 



Reo'uloiJes .^uperciliosus (^Gmel.), Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 2S6 ; id. Ibis, 

 1672, p. 24. 



Reguloides humii, Brooks, Sir. F. vii. p. 131 (1878). 



Spring plumaye. General colour of the upper parts olive, browner 

 on the head and greener on the rump; a well-defined butf eye-stripe 

 extends from the base of the bill to the nape ; sometimes, but very 

 rarely, slight traces of a pale mesial line are ^nsible ; lores and the 

 space behind the eye brownish olive. Wing-coverts brown, the 

 le.sser wing-coveit.s with broad olive-green margins ; the median 

 wing-coverts with obscure pale tips ; the greater wing-coverts with 

 broad, well-defined buflish-yellow tips, forming a conspicuous pale 

 bar across each wing ; quills brown, all the secondaries and four or 

 five of the primaries narrowly tipped with greyish white ; outside 

 webs of the quills 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 greyish- 

 white margin. Uenerai colour of the underparts greenish yellow, 

 nearly white on the throat, and shading into buff on the flanks ; inner 

 margin of quills nearly white. Bill slender, Phylloscopiue, dark 

 brown, with the under mandible paler at the base. Legs, feet, and 

 claws dark bi own. Fourth primary slightly the longest ; second 

 primary intermediate in length between the eighth and ninth, occa- 

 sionally between the seventh and eighth, and occasionally between 

 the ninth and tenth ; the exposed part of the bastard urimary 

 measures 0*4.5 to 0"55 inch. Length of wing 2'32 to 2-01 inches, 

 taU 1-8 to 1-5, culmen 0-4 to 0-45. 



Summer plumnge. Considerably abraded, but not nearly so much 

 80 a.s is the case with P. supercHiusus. 



Autumn plaru'ige. Similar to the spring plumage, but more bril- 

 liant ; the butf of the eye-stripe is somewhat deeper in shade. 



Hume's Barred Willow-Warbler breeds in the Himalayas, and 

 winters in the valley of the Ganges. 



a. Ad. sk. Afghanistan (6-V;^<A). India Museum. 



b, c. Ad. sk. N.W. India {Capt. Marshall). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. fP.l 



d. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse PlnwiU 



[P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson). India Museum. 



f. g. Ad. sk. Xepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types ot Abromis tenuiceps, Hodo^on.) 

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