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Upper plumage olive green, the head suffused with dusky ; a yellowish 

 white mesial line on the crown, and another on each side from the base of the 

 bill to the nape ; lores and feathers behind the eye brown ; ear coverts mixed 

 yellowish and dusky ; wings and wing coverts brown, externally margined with 

 yellowish green ; the median and greater coverts tipped with yellowish, forming 

 two wing bars ; tail olive brown, externally margined with yellowish green, and, 

 except the two centre feathers, narrowly margined on the inner webs with 

 greyish white ; under surface white suffused with yellow, the breast and flanks 

 greyish; under wing coverts, axillarics, thighs and under tail coverts pale yellow. 

 The summer plumage is duller. Upper mandible brown, lower mandible 

 yellowish; mouth yellow; legs and feet plumbeous. 



Length. 5 1 2 inches; tail 2*1 ; wing 2'4 ; tarsus O'y ; bill from gape 0*6 ; 

 1st primary O'5 to 0*55 inch; 2nd primary longer than the 7th and shorter 

 than the 6th. 



Hab. British Btirmah, in the Pegu and Tenasserim Provinces ; south- 

 wards down the Malay Peninsula as far as Java and Cochin-China. Accord- 

 ing to Seebohm it breeds in Japan in the valley of the Ussuri and in the 

 sub-alpine districts of South East Persia. Its habits are not known. 



291. Phylloscopus reguloides, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 191 ; xii. 



p. 963; Seebohm, Cat. B, Br. Mas. v. p. $. Reguloides trochiloides, (Sund.) 

 Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 196, No. 564 ; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 139 ; Bl. and Walh 

 B. Bunn. p. loS ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 358; Hume, Str. F. viii. 

 p. 102 ; Scully, Sir. F. viii. p. 307; Brooks, Str. F*. x p. 169. Reguloides 

 viridipennis, (-#/) Jcrd.B. Ind. ii. p. 198, No. 567. Phylloscopus viridipennis, 

 (BL) Sccbohm> IbiSi 1877, p. 82. Phylloscopus flavolivacea, Hume, Sir. F. 

 v. p. 504 ; II ume and Dav., S/r. F. vi. p. 358. Reguloides flavolivaceous, 

 If ume, Str. F. viii. p. io2; ix. p. 291. BLYTH'S CROWNED WILLOW- 

 WARBLER* 



An ill-defined coronal streak from the forehead to the nape, and a well- 

 defined superciliary streak on each side pale yellowish. Upper parts olive green* 

 slightly yellower on the rump and upper tail coverts ; the interspaces on the 

 crown dark olive ; wings and wing coverts brown, edged externally with bright 

 olive green ; the median and greater coverts with yellow tips forming two con^ 

 spicuous wing bars ; quills brown, very narrowly tipped paler, and the outer 

 webs margined with bright olive green ; lores and feathers behind the eye 

 brown ; ear coverts mixed brown and yellowish ; lower plumage greyish white, 

 whiter on the belly, and more or less suffused with yellow ; under wing coverts, 

 axillaries and thighs bright yellow. In summer, as in all the Phylloscopi^ 

 the plumage is duller. Upper mandible dark brown ; lower one with the gapa 

 and the edges of the upper mandible yellow ; iris dark hazel ; legs yellowish 

 brown. 

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