PHYLLOSCOPUS. 247 



Above dull earthy brown, with an olive green tinge on the lower back and 

 rump ; lores and behind the eye and ear coverts like the back ; supercilium 

 pale buffy white ; wings brown, their coverts with pale margins, and the 

 primaries and secondaries edged on their outer webs with greenish; edge of 

 wing and under wing coverts yellow ; tail brown, the feathers edged on their 

 outer webs with yellowish green ; the inner web faintly and narrowly margined 

 with whitish ; under surface albescent ; bill dark brown ; legs black ; irides 

 brown. 



Length. 5 inches ; wing 2*5 ; tail 2 to 2*3 ; culmen 0*45 to 0*48. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Beloochistan, S. E 

 Persia, Afghanistan, and East Turkistan ; Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jeypore, 

 Jodhpore, and North Guzerat. In Sind, as in other parts of India, it is a 

 winter visitor. According to Seebohm "The Siberian or Brown Tree 

 Warbler breeds in the valleys of Petchora, the Obb and the Yennessee, 

 extending northwards beyond the limits of forest-growth, and southwards as 

 far as Perm in the west and Yennasaisk in the east. It passes across the 

 Khirgiz steppes and Turkestan on migration, and winters in Beloochistan and 

 the plains of India. It also breeds abundantly at Cashmere and in the moun- 

 tains near Lake Baical." 



294. Phylloscopus affinis, (Tick.) Ely. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 44 2. ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 194, No. 561 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli. pt. 2, p. 8i; 

 Brooks, Ibis, 1872, p. 31 ; Godw.- Austen, J. A. S. B. xlv. pt. 2, p. 80 ; Hume 

 and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 356; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. loo; id. Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. v. p. 65. Motacilla affinis, Tick., J . A. S. B. ii. p. 576. TICKELL'S. 

 WILLOW-WARBLER. 



Upper parts olive brown> very slightly darker on the head ;. superciliary 

 Stripe deep yellow ; wing and tail feathers brown, externally washed with olive 

 brown, the former emarginated as far as the 6th quill ; under surface deep 

 yellow, shading into buffish yellow on the breast and flanks ; axillaries and 

 under wing coverts deep yellow. Bill Phylloscopine ; upper mandible dark 

 brown, lower pale brown ; legs and feet brown ; 3rd, 4th and 6th primaries 

 longest, 2nd equal to the 9th or iQth ; ist primary about half the length of the 

 second (07 to 0*8 inch). 



Length. 4'$ inches ; wing 2'2 to 2-4 ; tail 1-95 to 2-23 ; bill 0-46 ; tarsus 07. 



Hab. The Himalayas, from Cashmere to Sikkim and British Burmah. 

 It is recorded from the N. W. Provinces, Bengal, South India, British Burmah 

 and Nepaul. Jerdon says it is spread over all India ; but this is not accurate, 

 being absent from the Concan and Deccan and the drier parts of the 

 Peninsula. He adds that a specimen was procured at Sikkim. 



Tickell's Willow-Warbler is said to breed in the Himalayas from Cashmere 

 to Burmah. 



