74 TURDIDJS. 



giuated as far as tlie sixth ; tail-featliers broTvn, the outside weha 

 margined -with green, and the inside ■webs and shafts of the three 

 outer feathers on each side pure white, tlie outside web of these 

 feathers being brown on the terminal half, and white tinged with 

 greenish yellow on the basal half. General colour of the uuderparts 

 dull greenish yellow, brightest on the centre of the belly ; inner 

 margin of tiuills nearly white. Bill slender, Phylloscopine ; both 

 mandibles dark brown, the under mandible paler at the base. Legs, 

 feet, and claws brown. Fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries longest ; 

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

 bastard primarj' measures 0-55 to 0'6.5 inch. Length of wing, male 

 2*45 to 2-3, female 2-25 to 2'1 inches; length of tail, male 2*0 

 to 1-8, female 1 -75 to 1-6 ; length of culmcn O'o to 0'45. 



The Orange-barred Willow-Wai bier breeds in the pine-regions of 

 the Himalayas, in Xepal and Sikkim, coming down into the valleys 

 during the cold season, but rarely, or never, descending into the 

 plains of India. 



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



(Type of Abrornis erochroa, Hodgs.) 

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



(Type of Abrornis pulchrula, Hodgs.) 

 /. Ad. sk. Darjeeling. J. Fotheringham, Esq. [P.]. 



g. Ad. sk. N.W. India {Capt. G. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



F.L. 3Iar shall). 

 h. Ad. sk. Simla. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P-]- 

 t. Ad. sk. Sikkim (Mandclli). Henry Seebolim, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Bootan {Pemberton). India Museum. 



25. Phylloscopus subviridis. (Plate lY. fig. 2.) 



Eeguloides subviridis, Brooks, P. A. S. Beng. 1872, p. 148 ; Hume, 



!^:tr(nj Feath. iv. p. 494 (1876). 

 Phylloscopus subviridis [Brooks), Seeboktn, Ibis, 1877, p. 106. 



Spring plumage unknown. 



Summer plumage unknown. 



Autumn plumage. General colour of the upper parts olive-green, 

 shading into light yellowish green at the termination of the rump- 

 feathers, which are there well defined from the olive-green upper 

 tail-coverts ; an irregularly defined greenish-yellow eye-stripe ex- 

 tends from the base of the bill to the nape ; a still Jess regularly 

 defined greenish-yellow mesial line extends from the forehead to the 

 nape ; lores, the feathers between the eye and the nape, and between 

 the eye-stripes and the mesial line on the crown olive ; wing-coverts 

 brown, the lesser wing-coverts with broad olive-green margins, the 

 median wing-coverts w ith slightly paler tips forming an obscure bar 

 across the wings, and the greater wing-coverts with broad well- 

 defined pale tips, forming a conspicuous dirty yellowish-white bar 

 across the wings ; quills brown, .ill the secondaries and four or five 

 of the primaries with narrow dirty yellowish -Avhite tips; outside 

 ■webs of the quills margined with yellowish green, fading into dirty 



