242 TURDID/E. 



and appears to summer in Turkestan and Southern Siberia. It frequents 

 thickly foliaged trees. Nothing is known of its nidincation. 



286. PhyllOSCOpUS tenellipes, Swinh., Ibis, 1860, p. 53; Seebohm., 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 75 ; Brooks, Str. F. iv. p. 276; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. 

 PP- 3S4 5 5 J 7 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 102 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 

 46 ; Oates, Sir. F. x. p. 222 ; id. B. Br. Burm., i. p. Si. The PALE-LEGGED 

 WILLOW- WARBLER. 



Above olive brown, suffused with buff, especially on the rump ; a huffish 

 white narrow eye streak extending to the nape ; lores and feathers behind the 

 eye blackish ; ear coverts mingled buff and brown ; wings brown, edged with 

 olive brown ; the median and the greater coverts tipped with buff, forming two 

 distinct wing bars. Under surface of body white, suffused with buff, especially 

 on the flanks and vent. 



Tail feathers brown, externally margined with pale buffish brown, and the 

 inside webs with huffish white. 



Bill Acrocephaline ; upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible pale 

 iris brown ; legs, feet and claws pale flesh colour ; 3rd, 4th and 5th primaries 

 longest; 2nd equal to the 7th ; 1st primary O'5 to 0-53. 



In autumn plumage the olive brown of the upper parts is replaced by 

 russet brown, the eye stripe and under surface more suffused with buff. 



Length. 5-15 inches ; wing 2*2 to 2-67 ; tail 2 ; tarsus 073 ; bill from gape 

 0-65. 



Hab. British Burmah and southwards in the Malay Peninsula. It is also 

 recorded from Cochin-China, Amoy, and Pekin. Oates says the Pale-legged 

 Willow- Warbler is a winter visitor to Burmah, but a comparatively rare one. It 

 was obtained by Davison in various parts of Tenasserim. It is said to breed 

 in Japan. Habits the same as other Phylloscopi. 



287. Phylloscopus magnirostris, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 966 ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 191, No. 556; Brooks, Sir. F. iii. p. 243 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 77 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 355 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. 

 p. 102 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 47 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. \. p. 82. 

 Phyllopneuste magnirostris, Bl. B. Burm. p. 105. The LARGE-BILLED 

 WILLOW- WARBLER. 



Above dark olive green, slightly darker on the head and somewhat greener 

 on the rump ; eye stripe pale yellowish white ; lores and feathers behind the 

 eye brown ; ear coverts yellowish white, suffused with brown ; wing coverts 

 and wings brown, edged with olive ; the median coverts with small and the 

 greater coverts with large yellowish white tips, forming two distinct wing 

 bars ; tail brown, edged with olive green on the outer webs and tipped paler 



