160 i^HYLLOSCOriN.^^i. 



Phylloscopus sindianus, Brooks, IStr. F. vol. viii. p. ■{■%. 



"Above uniform dull browu, rather lighter thau iu P. trlstis, and much 

 the colour of the upper surface of Hi/polais rama; below albescent, 

 with a rudely tinge on the pale supercilia, sides of face, neck, breast, 

 and flanks; axillaries and edge of wing yellowish white, sometimes 

 almost quite white, and not pure sulphur yellow as in P. tristis; no 

 greenish on bend or shoulder of wing, nor any green edging to the 

 primaries, secondaries and tail feathers generally observable in P. tyistis ; 

 no greenish tinge on rump; like P. nec/ledns and H. rama, the uniform 

 light greyish brown upper surface is characteristic ; bill Phylloscopine, 

 like tristis, dark brown; the base of lower mandible yellowish." 



Male. Female. 



Length.— 4-40 to 4-70 4-20 to 4-45. 



Wiug. 2-22 to 2- 4 2-05 to 2-15. 



Tail. 1-85 to 2-05 1-75 to 1- i). 

 Bill at front '3 to 'So. 



Ilah. — Sukkur^ Sind. 



Gen. 'Reguloides.— Blijth. 



Characters same as those of Pliyllosco-pus ; wings moderately long and 

 pointed ; 2nd primary shorter than 4th. 



Reguloides occipitalis, Jenl. B. InA. ii. p. 196, No, 503 ; Bronls, 

 Il)is, 1809, p. 457 ; 1872, p. 29 ; Hume, Nest and E<j,js, Ind. B. p. 302 ; 

 Murray, Lldbic, ZooL, c^c, Sind, p. 162. Phylloscopus occipitalis, 

 (Blytli) fide, Het^-boJim, Cat. B. Br. Mas. vol. v. p. 50. — Jekdo'n's Lakge- 

 CROWNED Willow Warbler. 



Male, — Forehead, interspace between the supercilium and mesial 

 yellow streak on the crown, brown, with a dull greenish tinge ; rest of 

 the upper parts dull olive green, brighter on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; supercilium buffy or yellowish white, extending to the.na|e; 

 a yellowish mesial line from the forehead to the nape ; wing-coverts 

 olive green, the median and greater coverts with greyish or yellowish 

 white tips, forming two conspicuous bars ; primaries and secondaries 

 brown, margined on their outer webs with the colour of the back, and 

 tipped with greyish white; edge of the wing and under wing and thigh- 

 coverts pale yellow ; tail brown, the feathers margined yellowish green 

 ou their outer webs, and all, except the two median ones, margined 

 narrowly with greyish white on their inner webs; chin, throat, breast, 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts gi-eyish white with a very slight tinge 

 of yellowish on the breast and under tail-coverts ; in some pure greyish 

 white, (probably the summer pkimage) with the wing bands nearly 

 absent, or indistinct; bill dusky brown; the base of the lower mandible 

 yellowish ; legs pale brown ; irides hazel. 



Length.— 4-76 to 5, wiug 2-5 to 2-75, tail 2-0 to 2*15, bill at front O'S. 



Hah. — Sind, the Punjab (at Montgomery), N. W. Provinces, Oudh, 

 Bengal, Central India, Kaipur, N. W. Himalayas, Nepaul, Cashmere, 

 and Southern India. 



