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PHYLLOSCOPUS SUPERCILIOSUS. 
YELLOW-BROWED WILLOW-WREN. 
(Pate 10.) 
? Motacilla superciliosa, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 975 (1788); et auctorum plurimo- 
rum—(Cabanis), (Schrench), (Blyth), (Radde), (Gould), (Gray), (Newton), 
(Dresser), (David § Oustalet), &c. 
? Sylvia superciliosa (Gmel.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 526 (1790). 
Regulus modestus, Gould, apud Hancock, Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. p- 310 (1839). 
Regulus inornatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 191 (1842), 
Phylloscopus modestus (Gould), apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p- 963 (1843). 
Phyllopneuste modesta (Growld), apud Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 98 (1843). 
Reguloides modestus (Gould), apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 442 (1847). 
Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) proregulus (Pail.), apud Midd. Sib. Reise, p. 183 (1833, 
partim). 
Phyllobasileus superciliosus (Gimel.), Cabanis, Journ. Orn. 1853, p. 81. 
Reguloides proregulus (Pall.), apud Horsf. § Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 342 
(1854). 
Ficedula proregulus (Paill.), apud Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pp. 130, 241 (1854). 
Phyllopneuste proregulus (Pall.), apud Blasius, Naum. viii. p. 311 (1858). 
Sylvia bifasciata, Gaetke, Naum. viii. p. 419 (1858). 
Phyllopneuste (Phyllobasileus) superciliosa (Gimel.), Schrenck, Reis. Forsch. Amur- 
Lande, i. p. 863 (1860). 
Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) superciliosa (G'mel.), Naum. Vig. Deutschi. xiii. pt. 2, p. 74 
(1860). 
Reguloides superciliosus (Gmel.), Blyth, Ibis, 1862, p. 386. 
Phylloscopus pallasii, Dubois, Ois. Eur. p. 83 (1862). 
Phyllopneuste superciliosa (Gmel.), Bolle, Jowrn. Orn. 1863, p. 60. 
Regulus superciliosus (G'mel.), Gray, Cat. Brit. B. p. 54 (1863). 
Phylloscopus superciliosus (G'mel.), Crommelin, Ned. T. D. iii. p. 244 (1866), 
Sylvia inornata (Blyth), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no, 3066 (1869). 
Phyllopseuste proregulus (Pall.), apud Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 120 (1877). 
The breeding-range of the Yellow-browed Warbler is supposed to be 
confined to the pine-forests of North-eastern Siberia, from the valley of 
the Yenesay eastwards to the Pacific, and from the mountains of Lake 
Baikal northwards to the Arctic circle. It passes through Mongolia and 
North China on migration, and winters in South China, Assam, Burma, 
and North-east India. Like some other Siberian birds which winter in 
South-east Asia, a few examples appear more or less regularly to take the 
wrong turning at Yenesaisk, and, instead of accompanying the main body 
of the migratory species, which follow the course of the Angora through 
Lake Baikal into the valley of the Amoor, join the smaller stream of 
migration, which flows westwards into Persia and Europe. 
The history of the Yellow-browed Warbler is quite a little romance, and 
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