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Breeding Range: The Caucasus, and perhaps the Crimea. [Also 

 Transcaspia to the W. Himalayas.] Recorded from Helgoland. 

 Con- Although Lorenz found this bird breeding in the valleys of Cis- 



Europe. caucasia, he does not appear to have taken any nests and the eggs are 

 still undescribed. It has been recorded from the Crimea in winter and 

 may breed there. [In Asia Sarudnoi records it from Transcaspia, and 

 probably it is found from Bokhara and perhaps Persia to the W. 

 Himalayas.] 



1). Greenish Willow Warbler, P. nitidus viridanus Blyth. 



Foreign Name: Russia; Pnnosclika-zelenaya. 

 P. viridanus Blyth. Dresser, B. of Europe, IX, p. 87 and Man. Pal. 

 Birds, p. 101. P. nitidus viridanus Blyth. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, 

 p. 510. 



Breeding Range: Russia (Baltic Provinces to Perm) and W. 

 Siberia. 

 Con- Although formerly supposed to breed only in the E. of European 



Europe. Russia, the range of this bird is now known to extend to the Russian 

 Baltic Provinces (Ehstland, Livland, N. Kurland) and possibly even to E. 

 Prussia, where an example has been obtained in June. Poljakow records 

 it from the Olonetz Govt., and Sabanaejeff from Jaroslaw, and it has also 

 been met with in Moscow, Kazan, Perm, Ufa and Orenburg. Meves 

 observed unfledged young being fed by the parents in the Urals near 

 Tjubuk. [E. of the Urals its range extends through Turkestan, Kashmir 

 and W. Siberia to the Tian Shan and Altai ranges.] 

 Nest. The only accessible information with regard to the breeding of this 



bird in Europe is contained in Menzbier's paper in the Ornitli. Jahrbuch, 

 1898, p. 1. Three nests found by Teplouchoff stood on the ground or 

 close to it. They were built of green moss, held together by thin grass 

 blades, and contained inside (presumably as lining) a certain amount of 

 wool. In Asia Brooks found an empty domed nest on a hillside in 

 Kashmir at about 11.000 ft., and Stuart Baker found one with 3 eggs 

 inside a crevice between loose stones by a roadside. It was large and 

 globular, loosely built of moss and a few dead leaves and lined with a 

 mass of white goats' hair. Height about 8 in., breadth 5i in. Osmaston 

 also describes a domed nest, thickly lined with hair, on a hillside as 

 that of this bird. 

 Eggs. Usually 3 — 4 in number. An addled Qgg found by Teplouchoff 



was white, and 4 eggs in my collection from Turkestan are similar 

 to those described by Stuart Baker, being white and almost without 

 gloss, short oval in shape with very fragile shells. Dresser has however 



