98 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Phylloscopi 



Ficedula fulvescens, Severtzoff, Fauna of Turkestan, pp. 

 65, 126 [see Ibis, 1876, p. 82] (1873). 



Phylloscopus brevirostris, Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 236 (nee 

 Strickland). 



Phylloscopus neglectvs, Seebobm & Harvie Brown, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 218 (nee Hume). 



Phylloscopus brehmi, Blanford, Eastern Persia, ii. p. 182 

 (1876, nee Homeyer). 



Bill very slender, under mandible nearly black. 



Upper parts eartby brown, slightly tinged with yellowish 

 green on the rump. Wings and tail greyish brown, 

 slightli/ tinged with green on the outside edge of each 

 feather. Superciliary streak huffish white. 



Head exactly the same colour as the back. 



Underparts nearly white, slightly dashed with huffish grey on 

 the breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; in autumn 

 plumage conspicuously so. Axillaries, wing-lining, and 

 thighs pale yellow, which almost disappears in extreme 

 summer plumage. 



Third and fourth primaries longest. Fifth a shade shorter. 

 Sixth considerably shorter. Seventh and eighth each 

 considerably shorter than the previous one. Second 

 generally between the seventh and eighth, sometimes equal 

 to the seventh, sometimes to the eighth. 



Bastard primary rather large, the exposed part measuring '5 

 in the female, and "53 to "65 in the males. 



No wing -bar. 



Length of wing— male 2-58 to 233, female 2-25 to 2-1, 

 Length of tail — male 2'3 to 2"0, female 1"9. 



Legs and claivs black. 



This species winters in the plains of India and Baluchistan. 

 A few remain to breed in the alpine districts of the Hima- 

 layas and the Karakorum mountains, whilst the main body 

 passes through Turkestan on migration to their summer 

 quarters in Siberia, which probably extend from the valley of 

 the Petchora to Lake Baical. 



Harvie Brown and I found it breeding north of the arctic 

 circle on the banks of the Petchora (Ibis, 1876, p. 217); 

 Meves obtained it in the breeding-season at Perm (Journ. fiir 

 Ornith. 1875, p. 430) ; Severtzoff writes that it passes on mi- 

 gration through the Central and Lower Ural, the Kirghis 



