or Willow-Warblers. 85 



by Dr. Dybowski near Lake Baical ; Homeyer has one skin 

 from Tura; and Eadde found it at Tarei-nor, in lat. 56°, 

 and in the Bureja mountains, in lat. 58°. In winter it has been 

 obtained near Pahpoon in India {Davison, Stray Feathers, 

 1874, p. 505). 



This species is nearest allied to P. fuscatus, but differs 

 from that bird in the shape of the bill, which is of about the 

 same length and width at the base, but much stouter and 

 blunter at the point, having a profile quite Finch-like in com- 

 parison with the slender Phylloscopine type. 



The nest and eggs of this bird are unknown. 



15. Phylloscopus fuscatus, Blyth. 



Phylloscojms fuscatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 113 

 (1842) ; Jerdon, B. of India, ii. p. 191 (1863). 



Phyllopneuste fuscatus, Homeyer, Cab. Jour. f. Orn. 1872, 

 p. 202. 



Phylloscopus brunneus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 591 

 (1845). 



Sylvia [Phtjllopneuste) siberica, Middendorff, Sib. Reise, 

 p. 180 (1851) ; Radde, Reisen im Siid. von Ost-Sibir. ii. p. 260 

 (1863). 



Abrornis armandi, Milne-Edwards, N. Arch. Mus. i. p. 22 

 (1865). 



Oreopneuste davidii, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 355. 



Phyllopneuste maacki, Tristram, Ibis, 1871, p. 110 (nee 

 Schrenck) . 



Obs. Phyllopneuste maacki (Schrenck) is an Acrocephalus 

 or, more probably, a Hypolais. 



Bill slender, under mandible pale at the base. 



Upper parts greyish brown. Wings and tail same colour. 



Superciliary stripe huffish white. 

 Head same colour as the back. 

 Underparts huffish white. Axillaries, wing-lining, breast, 



flanks, and under tail-coverts buff. 

 Fourth and fifth primaries longest. Third and sixth a shade 



shorter. Seventh, eighth, and ninth each considerably 



shorter than the preceding. Second primary equal to 



the ninth or tenth. 

 Bastard primary large, the exposed part measiiring '7 to '8. 



