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Above olive green, lighter or somewhat yellow on the rump ; wing coverts 

 brown, the outer webs margined with olive greeen ; median and greater coverts 

 with yellowish white tips forming two bars, a well-defined narrow yellow or 

 greyish white eye stripe extending to the nape ; lores and feathers behind the 

 eye brown; ear coverts olive mingled with yellowish ; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries, also the thighs, pale yellow ; tail brown, the outer webs olive green, 

 the inner webs except the central feathers brown, margined with greyish white ; 

 under surface of body white, slightly suffused with yellow ; bill Acrocephaline ; 

 upper mandible dark brown, under mandible pale ; iris dark brown ; legs 

 and feet brown ; 2nd primary intermediate in length between the 5th and 6th ; 

 3rd and 4th longest; 1st primary 0-3 to 0*45. 



Length. 4'8 inches; wing 2-5 to 27 ; tail 2 ; tarsus 0*8; culmen o ! 68. 



In summer the upper parts become greyer, the olive green margins to the 

 wing and tail feathers and the' tips to the wing coverts disappear, and the under 

 surface is nearly pure white. 



Hab. The Arctic Willow- Warbler is a winter visitor to Burmah. It has 

 been found in Pegu and Kyeikpadien and in the southern half of Tenas- 

 serim at Bankasoon and Malewoon. It extends down the Malay Peninsula 

 and Archipelago as far as Timor and Flores, also Cochin-China. On the 

 Andaman Island it has also been procured, but no where north or west of 

 Burmah. 



Mr. Seebohm found the nest in Siberia. It was built on the ground in a 

 wood thinly scattered with trees, and was placed in a recess on the side of a 

 tussock or mound of grass. It was semi-domed, the outside being composed 

 of moss and the inside of fine dry grass. The eggs, five in number, were 

 white, profusely spotted all over with pale pink. 



283. Phylloscopus nitidus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 965; xiv. 



P- 59 1 ; Jerd.B.Ind. ii. p. 193, No. 559; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 197; 

 Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 22 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 72; id. Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 v. p. 43 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool. &c., Sind, p. 162 ; Murray, Vert. Zool., 

 Sind, p. 159. Phyllopneuste nitida, (Blyth} Adam, Str. F. 1873, p. 382. 

 The GREEN WILLOW- WARBLER. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts yellowish green ; 

 supercilium extending to the nape yellow ; lesser wing coverts and tips and 

 edges of the median ones like the back ; greater wing coverts brown, edged 

 with yellowish green and tipped yellow, forming a conspicuous wing band ; 

 primaries, their coverts and secondaries brown, edged on their outer webs with 

 yellowish green ; 2nd primary intermediate in length between 6th and 7th ; 

 exposed 1st primary 0*55 to 0*6; edge of the wing, under wing coverts and 

 entire under surface yellow or yellowish green ; in some specimens albescent 

 on the chin ; bill dusky brown ; the lower mandible pale ; legs light brown ; 

 irides dark brown. 



