100 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Phylloscopi 



shorter than the preceding. Second primary equal to 



the ninth. 

 Bastard primary rather large, the exposed part measuring Q. 

 No wing-bar. 



Length of Aving — male 2'05, female 1"95. 

 Length of tail — male V7 , female 1-6. 

 Legs and feet black. 



This species has hitherto only been found in the cold season 

 in Scinde {Hume, Stray Feathers^ loc. cit.) and Baluchistan 

 {Blanford, Eastern Persia, ii. p. 182). Its breeding-places 

 are unknown. Mr. Brooks has convinced me that the speci- 

 men which I .shot in the Petchora (Ibis^ 1876, p. 218) is most 

 probably a yerj small P. tristis in the extreme summer-plu- 

 mage of a higher latitude, when nearly all trace of yellow 

 disappears from the plumage, as is occasionally the case with 

 P, trochilus. The true P. neglectus is a still smaller bird, 

 the large males being as small or even smaller than the small 

 females of P. tristis. Mr. Brooks tells me also that P. neglec- 

 tus frequents dry sandy localities instead of swampy ground. 



26. Phylloscopus affinis (Tickell). 



Motacilla affinis, Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 576 (1833). 



Motacilla affinis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 442 (1847). 



Phylloscopus affinis, Blyth, Cat. B. M. As. Soc. p. 185 

 (1849). 



Phylloscopus affinis, Jerdon, B. of India, ii. p. 194 (1863). 



Abrornis affinis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 106. 



Abroi'nis want hog aster, Hodgson in Gray^s Zool. Misc. p. 

 82. no. 854 (1844). 



Regulus flaveolus, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 175 (1848), 



Abrornis flaveolus, Bp. Consp. G. Av. p. 290 (1850). 



Bill slender, under mandible pale. 



Upper parts dark olive-brown. Wings and tail greyish brown. 



Superciliary streak greyish yellow. 

 Head rather darker than the back. 

 Underparts, axillaries, and wdng-lining greyish yellow, buffer 



on the breast and flanks. 

 Third, fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries longest. Seventh, 



eighth, and ninth each considerably shorter than the 



preceding. Second primary about equal to the tenth. 



