218 Messrs. H. Scebohra and J. A. Harvie Brown on 



Phylloscopus neglectus (Hume). 



lu ' The Ibis ' for 1869, p. 236, Mr. W. E. Brooks writes:— 

 " I have, hoAvever, a single specimen, a female, of a Phyllo- 

 scopus which I cannot make out. This bird exactly resembles 

 in size and colour P. brevirostris " {tristis), "but is entirely 

 Avithout any yellow under the wings, nor is there any tinge of 

 greenish yellow on the edges of the lesser wing-coverts. This 

 bird Mr. Hume pronounced to be the English Chiffchaff (P. 

 rufus), because it was white under the wings instead of yel- 

 low.'' To this Mr. Allen Hume replies in ' The Ibis ' for 

 1870, page 143, " there has been some mistake between 

 Mr. Brooks and myself about the Phylloscopus with a white 

 wing-lining. The bird he refers to is the species I call Phyl- 

 loscopus neglectus," &c. If this species be a good one, which 

 there seems to be some reason to doubt, we have much plea- 

 sure in being able to add it to the European fauna. On 3rd 

 June Seebohm shot a male Phylloscopus which agrees with 

 Mr. Hume's description. It differs from P. tristis in having 

 white instead of yellow axillaries, in having the edges of the 

 primaries without any tinge of yellow, in having a decidedly 

 shorter tail, and a slightly smaller bastard primary. It was 

 frequenting some tall willows in a pine-forest at Habariki. 

 We may also remark that some of the small Phylloscopi which 

 we observed in the same neighbourhood, appeared to have 

 a richer and more varied song than those we heard at Ust 

 Zylma, and may have been this species. 



Calamodyta phragmitis (Bechst.). 



Next to the Willow- Wren the Sedge- Warbler is certainly 

 the commonest songster on the willow-swamps of the islands 

 of the delta. Curiously enough, we did not meet with this 

 bird either at Ust Zylma or at Habariki. We first met with 

 it on the Yorsa river. As the Bluethroat became rarer the 

 Sedge-Warbler became commoner. We did not find it north 

 of the delta ; nor did it appear to frequent the willow-swamps 

 which we frequently met Avith on the tundra. 



Parus kamchatkensis, Bp. 



We met with this eastern representative of the Northern 



