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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



-Distribution. — England. — One, a female, Cley (Norfolk), Oct. 31, 

 1896 (T. Southwell, ZooL, 1896, p. 466). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in east Siberia ; Zarudny found it 

 passing through quite regularly near Orenburg (Ural), and it has 

 been obtained on Heligoland. Winters in south China, and probably 

 also elsewhere. Replaced by allied form in Himalayas. 



133. Phylloscopus fuscatus (BIyth). 

 WARBLER. 



THE DUSKY 



Phyllopneuste fuscata Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xi, p. 113 

 (1842— Calcutta). 



Phylloscopus ftiscatus (Blyth), Clarke, Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 271. 



The Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus). Natural size. 



Description. — Adult male and female. — Winter — Forehead, crown, 

 mantle, scapulars, and wing-coverts dark olivaceous-brown (often 

 slightly tinged rulous) ; rump rather paler ; upper tail-coverts 

 more rufous ; lores and behind eye dark brown ; superciliary 

 stripe (from nostrils to nape) rufous-bu£E paler in front of eye ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of neck same mottled dark brown ; centre 

 of throat and belly whitish ; sides of throat, breast, and under 

 tail -coverts rufous -buff ; flanks darker washed greenish-brown ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts bright pinkish-buff ; tail and 

 wing-feathers dark brown with outer webs more rufous and fringed 

 very pale pinkish-buff on inner webs and narrowly fringed same 

 on outer webs of outer primaries. This plumage is acquired by 

 complete moult Sept .-Oct. Summer. — The body -leathers and 

 innermost secondaries are moulted in March and April but apparently ■ 

 not tail and rest of wing-feathers. Coloration as winter. 

 Nestling. — (Not examined). 



