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coarse stalks and lined with finer grasses and a layer of feathers of 

 Chough and Thrush as well as some hair. It contained 5 eggs on 

 May 26, white, marked with dark red brown spots and a few streaks. 



b. Hume's Plain Brown Warbler, P. neg-lectus Home. 



P. neglectus Hume. Dresser, B. of Europe, IX. p. 79 and Man. Pal. 

 Birds, p. 98. P. neglectus neglectus Hume. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, 

 p. 506. 



Breeding Range: Transcaspia, Turkestan, Persia and Kashmir. 

 Sarudnoi has recorded this race from Transcaspia, Russow and Sewerzow 

 from Turkestan, and Witherby found it breeding in S. W. Persia (Farzistan). 

 He describes the nest as 2 ft. 6 in. from the ground between two thick 

 bushy boughs of a small bush, neatly w^oven of grass and well lined with 

 feathers. The eggs were 4 in number, and pure white in colour. 

 Incubation had just begun on April 28. Average size of 3 eggs, 

 15 X 11.36 mm. Col. Ward {Journ. Bomb. N. H. S. XVIII, p. 461) 

 also records 4 eggs taken at Kargil, Kashmir, on May 28 and again on 

 June 22. 



115. Willow Warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus (L.). 

 Geographical Races. 



a. Common Willow Warbler, P. trochilus (L.). 



Plate 28, fig. 1—5 (Germany). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Tab. XIX, fig. 9, a — c. Hewitson, 

 I Ed. I, pi. CXV, fig. 1, 2; II Ed. I, pi. XXVIII, fig. 3, 4; III Ed. I, 

 pi. XXXVI, fig. 1, 2. Baedeker, Tab. 19, fig. 7. Taczanowski, Tab. LI. 

 fig. 3. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 10; Col. Fig. pi. 58. Frohawk, Br. 

 Birds, I, pi. II, fig. 52—54. Dresser, pi. — , flg. 8—10. Howard, Br. 

 AVarblers, pi. II. fig. 25—27, 31, 32. Nest: 0. Lee, I, p. 66. 



British Local Names: Willoiv Wren, Peep. Manx: Drein vane. 

 Welsh: Dryw Felen. Foreign Names: Bohemia: Biidnidek vetsi. Denmark 

 and Norway : Lo/sa/i^er. Finland: TJunilintu. France: Pouillot-Fltis. Ger- 

 many: Fitis-Laubsdnger. Helgoland: Liitj Fliegenbitter. Holland: Fitis. 

 Hungary: Fitisz fiizike. Itsilj : Lui grosso. Fol&nd: Oajowka pier iviosnka. 

 Portugal :/^oZosa. Pussia: Penotschka. Spain: Mosquitero. S^ffeden: Lo'fsdngare. 

 Phylloscopus trochilus L. Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 432. Dresser, B. of 

 Europe, II, p. 491 and Man. Pal. Birds, p. 94. Saunders, Man. p. 69. 

 P. trochilus trochilus (L.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 507. 



Breeding Range: The British Isles and Continental Europe, 

 except N. Scandinavia and Russia, where it is replaced by the next race. 



