2. PHYLLOSCOPTJS. 73 



of South-eastern Siberia, and throughout the alpine districts of 

 the Himahiyas from Cashmere to Burma. Passes through North 

 China on migration, and winters in South China, Burma, and 

 Bengal. 



a, b, c, d. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



e,f, g. Ad. sk. Sikkim {MandelU). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



h. (S ad.sk. Lake Baikal (DyJozraA*?/). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.J. 



24. Phylloscopus pulcher. 



Abrornis erochroa, Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Mus.) of 



Birds of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 57. fig. 2, no. 383, unde Hodgs. Grag's 



Zool. Misc. p. 82, no. 383 (1844, descr. nulla); Grag, Cat. Mamin. 8fC. 



Nepal pres. Hodqs. p. t'6 1^1846, descr. sectmda) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 291 



(1850; ; Horsf.'^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. p. 340 (18-54). 

 Abrornis pulchrala, Hodgs. MS. Drawings {in the Brit. Mus.) of Birds 



of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 57. no. 879, & pi. -58, und^ Hodgs. Grag^s 



Zool. Misc. p. 82. no. 879 (1844, descr. nulla). 

 Phylloscopus pulcher (Hodgs.), Blgth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 592 



(1845, descr. prima). 

 Abrornis pulchra (Hodgs.), Grai/, Cat. Mamm. ^-c.Neiyal pres. Hodgs. 



p. 66(184(5). 

 Ciilicipeta pulchra {Hodgs.), Blgth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 442 



(1847). 

 Regulus erochroa {Hodgs.), Grag, Gen. B. i. p. 175 (1848). 

 Abrornis pulcher {Hodgs.), Blgth, Cat. B. Miis. As. Soc. p. 183 



(1849). 

 Reguloides erochroa {Hodgs.), Jerdon, B. India, ii. p. 199 (1863) ; 



Blanf. J. A. S. Bent/, xli. pt. 2, p. 53 (1872); Godioin-Ausfen, J. A. 



S. Beng. xliii. pt. 2, p. 1(37(1874); Blgth l^- Walden. B. of Burm. 



p. 106 ( ltf7o) ; Hume ^ Davison, Strag Feath. vi. p. 358 (1878). 

 S\lvia erochroa {Hodgs.), Gray, Hand- 1. B. i. p. 217. no. 3072 

 •(lfc69). 



Reguloides ?, Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. xH. pt. 2, p. 162 (1872). 



Phylloscopus erochrous {Hodgs.), Seeb(.hm, Ibis, 1877, p. 106. 



There appears to be little or no variation between spring and 

 autumn plumage of this species ; nor are the effects of abrasion 

 apparent beyond the narrowing of the wing-bar and the lessening 

 of the pale tips of the secondaries. 



In full plumage the general colour of the upper parts is dark 

 green, the featlicrs on the rump, which are much developed, having 

 a broad yellowish-green terminal band concealing the dark-green 

 upper tail-coverts ; crown between the eye-stripes, lores, and the 

 feathers behind the eye to the nape dark olive-green ; eye-stripe 

 pale huffish green, not very well defined, and extending to the nape ; 

 mesial line on the crown nearlj' obsolete ; wing-coverts brown, 

 the lesser coverts with broad green margins, the median coverts with 

 green tips, forming an obscure upper wing-bar ; greater coverts 

 with broad well-defined orange ti])s, forming a conspicuous lower 

 wing-bar ; quills brown, on the outside web margined with green 

 fading into yellowish white, and becoming broad and conspicuous 

 on the teiTninal portion of the innermost secondaries ; quills emar- 



