or Willow- Warblers. 73 



Head the same colour as the back. 



Undei'parts^ axillaries, and wing-lining j»a/e lemon-yellow. 



Third and fourth primaries longest. Fifth a shade shorter. 

 Sixth and seventh each considerably shorter than the 

 preceding. Second primary equal to the seventh, some- 

 times a little longer. 



Bastard primary rather small, the exposed part measuring 

 •5 to -6. 



First wing-bar distinct, upper bar wanting. 



Length of wing — male 2-65 to 2'5, female 2*5 to 2"35. 



Length of tail — male 2-05 to 1-95, female 1*9 to 1*8. 



Legs and claws brown. 



So far as is known, this species has a very restricted range, 

 probably breeding in the North-western Himalayas, and win- 

 tering in Bengal, Southern India, and Ceylon. Hume met 

 with it in the Punjaub (Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 197), and 

 Mr. R. M. Adam near the Sambhur lake (ibid. p. 382) . Blyth 

 says (J. A. S. Beng. 1854, p. 483) that it is generally distri- 

 buted but rare in Lower Bengal. I have skins obtained on 

 migration by Mr. Brooks at Etawah. Jerdon mentions it as 

 frequent in winter in Southern India, but rare near Calcutta 

 (Birds of Ind. ii. p. 193) . Ceylon is one of its favourite winter- 

 quarters {Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 22), and there are several skins 

 of this species from that island in Lord Tweeddale^s collection. 

 Strange to say, a solitary bird of this species fell to the gun of 

 Mr. Gaetke^s son Ludwig, in Heligoland. Mr. Gaetke^s obser- 

 vations seem satisfactorily to prove that birds of the year 

 migrate earlier than their parents. It is scarcely to be 

 wondered at that, on their first journey, they should some- 

 times stray far out of the usual track. It will doubtless be 

 found that most of the accidental visits of birds to unusual 

 localities are those of birds of the year on their first autumnal 

 migration. 



The nest and eggs of this bird are unknown. 



4. Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth. 



Phyllopneuste rufa, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 191 (1842, 

 nee Bodd.). 



Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 967 



(1843). 



