2. PHTLLOSCOPUS. 71 ' 



green, the feathers of the rump, which are much developed, ending 

 in a broad band of deep yellow, which conceals the olive-grf;en . 

 upper tail-coverts. The head, nape, and hind neck, the lores, and 

 the space behind the eye to the nape are dark olive-brown ; a well- 

 defined pale buff eye-stripe reaches from the base of the bill to the 

 nape: an irregular, pale buff mesial line on the cro-\vn reaches from 

 the forehead to the nape. Wing-coverts brown, the lesser wang- 

 coverts with broad yellowish-green margins ; the median wing- 

 coverts tipped with deep yellow, fomiing a narrow upper bar across 

 the wings ; and the greater wing-coverts more broadly tipped with 

 the same colour, forming a well-defined, broad, conspicuous, deep- 

 yellow lower bar across the wings ; quills brown, edged on the 

 outside web with yellowish green, and emarginated as far as the 

 sixth ; innermost secondaries with a well-defined yellowish-white 

 terminal spot on the outer web. Tail-featliers brown, the outside 

 webs margined with 3-ellowish green ; two, and frequently three, 

 outside feathers on each side pure white, including their shafts, 

 with the terminal third part of the outer web brown, and the basal 

 third part of the outer web yellow. Underparts from the bill down 

 to the breast greyish white ; below, including the axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts, greyish yellow, brightest in the centre of the 

 belly ; inner margin of quills nearly white. Bill slender, Phyllosco- 

 pine, both mandibles dark brown. Legs, feet, and claws brown. 

 Pourth and fifth primaries longest ; second primary about equal to 

 the tenth ; bastard primary nearly half the length of the second 

 primary, the exposed i)art measuring 0-5 to 0-55 inch. Length of 

 wing 2-0 to 1-8 inches, rail I'f! to l-J-io, culmen 0"35 to 0"4. 



Hodgson's Barred AYillow-AVarbler probal)ly breeds in the pine- 

 districts of the Himalayas, in Xepal and Sikkim, coming down into 

 the valleys during the cold season. 



a, h, c, d, e,f. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



g, h, i. Ad. sk. Nepal {Ilodgsoii). India Museum [P-]. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Parjeeling. J. Fotheringham; ?].sq. [P.]. 



m, n. Ad. sk. Darjeeling. Henry Seebohiu, Esq. [P.]. 



23. Phylloscopiis proregulus. 



Motacilla proregulus, Pnll. Z»n,ir. Homi-A^. i. p. 499 (1811). 



Eeguhis niodestus, Gould, B. Eiir. ii. p. 149(1837). 



Eegnlus proregulus (I'a/I.), Kci/s. u. lilas. IVirb. Eur. p. 184(1840); 



Grot/, Gt-n. B. i. p. 175 (1848, partim). 

 Abrornis chlorouotus, IIad;is. MS. Druiciru/s (in the Brit. Mus.) of 



Birds of Xcpal, Piisstrrs, pi. 57. lig. o, no. 8-"!',), umfe 

 Abrornis cbloronoiais. I£od(/s.,G>'".'/^ Zool. Misc. p. 82. no. 839 ('1844); 



Grai/, Cat. M. (S' Biid.i Nepal pres. Hodgs. pp. (JG, 152 (1846) ; Bp. 



C'on'sp. i. p. 201 ( 1850). 

 Regidoides chloronotiis ( Hodgs.), Bhjth, Cat.B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 184 



(1849); .lerdon, B. India, ii'. p. 197 ( 18()3 ). 

 Pbyllobasileus chlorouotus ( ILi'lgs. ), Cahani<, Journ. Orn. 1853, p. 96. 

 Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) ] roregulus (Pall.), Middend. Beis. Sibir. Zool. 



'p. 183 (\6o'A. partim). 

 Eeguloides proregulus (Pall.), Smnhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 307 e< subscq., 



