244 TURDID^. 



289. PhyllOSCOpUS OCCipitaliS, (BlytJi). Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. v. p. 150. Phyllopneuste occipitalis, (Jerd.) fide. Blyth J . A. S. B. 

 xiv. p. 593. Reguloides occipitalis, (Jerd). fide Jerd., B. bid. ii. p. 196, 

 No. 563; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 457; Cock and Marsh, Sir. F. 1873, 

 p. 355 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 362. Phylloscopus occipitalis, 

 (Jerd). fide Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 80. JERDON'S CROWNED WILLOW- 

 WARBLER. 



Above olive green, slightly yellower on the rump and upper tail coverts ; a 

 well-defined narrow yellowish white eye stripe from the base of the bill to the 

 nape on each side, and a pale rather broader mesial one on the crown, the 

 interspaces dark olive green ; wing coverts olive green ; the median and greater 

 series with greyish white tips, forming two pale bars across each wing ; quills 

 brown, tipped narrowly with greyish white, externally edged with yellowish 

 green and emarginated as far as the sixth primary ; tail brown, externally edged 

 with yellowish green, and, except the two central feathers, the inner webs have 

 a narrow well-defined greyish white margin ; under surface greyish white, very 

 slightly suffused with yellow, greyest on the breast and flanks ; axillaries, 

 under wing coverts and thighs pale yellow ; bill Acrocephaline ; upper man- 

 dible dark brown ; under mandible pale, slightly darker towards the tip ; legs, 

 feet and claws dark brown ; 3rd, 4th and $th primaries nearly equal and longest ; 

 2nd intermediate between 7th and 8th ; ist primary 0-55 to 07. 



Length. 475 to 5 inches; wing 2-65 to 27 ; culmen 0*5 to 0-6. 



The summer plumage is greyer on the upper parts, the lower parts become 

 abraded, the light tips to the quills and wing coverts also become abraded, and 

 the yellowish green edgings greyer. The autumn plumage is rather brighter 

 everywhere, otherwise it is similar to that of the summer. 



Hab. The Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh and Bengal, also British Burmah 

 (Tenasserim Province), Cashmere and Nepaul. 



Jerdon's Willow-Warbler breeds in Cashmere and throughout the Himalayas 

 generally during the latter half of May, June and the first half of July from 

 4,000 to 8,000 feet. The nests are placed in holes under the stump of a 

 tree, or steep bank sides. Eggs 4 to 5 in number, pure white, 0-65 x 0-5 

 inch. 



290. PhyllOSCOpUS COronatUS, (Temm.) Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 93 ; 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, P- 795 ^- ^ at - & ^ r - Mus. v. p. 49; Oates,B. Br. 

 Burm., i. p. 84. Ficedula coronata, Tern, et Schleg. Faun. Jap. Aves. p. 48, 

 pi. xviii. Phyllopneuste coronata, "David, et Oust. Ois Chtne, p. 269. Reguloides 

 coronata, Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 356; Hume, Str. F. viii.p. 102. 

 TEMMINCK'S CROWNED WILLOW-WARBLER. 



