248 TURDID/E. 



295. PhyllOSCOpUS tytleri, Brooks, Ibis, 1872, p. 237 ; Hume, Nesfs 

 and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 362; id. Str. F. iii. p. 279; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, 

 P. 101 ; id. Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 66. TYTLER'S WILLOW-WARBLER. 



Above olive brown, shading into greenish olive on the rump ; superciliary 

 stripe narrow, greyish white, not .extending quite to the nape ; quills and tail 

 feathers brown, externally margined with greenish olive ; under surface 

 yellowish white, greyish on the breast and flanks ; axillaries and under wing 

 coverts yellow ; bill very long and slender, dark brown, paler on the under 

 mandible ; legs dark brown ; 3rd, 4th and 5th primaries longest ; second inter- 

 mediate between 8th and 9th ; 1st less than half the length of the 2nd ; o'SS 

 to 0-68. 



Length. 4-5 to 47 inches; wing 2-35 to 2'43 inches; tail l"j to 1*9; cul- 

 men 0-5. 



Hab.^ South India (?) Nepaul. It breeds in Cashmere and winters in India. 

 The nest is deep and solidly built, composed of grass, fibres, moss, and lichen, 

 thickly lined with hair and feathers ; eggs 4, pure white, 0*58 x 0*45. 



Two bars across the wings ; upper mandible dark ; generally a pale mesial 

 line an the crown. 



296- PhyllOSCOpUS humiL Brooks, Str. F. vii. p. 131; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 67 ; Abrornis tenuiceps, Hodgs. MSS. B. of Nepaul. 

 Reguloides superciliosus (Gmel.), Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 236; id. Ibis, 1872, 

 P. 24. HUME'S BARREL WILLOW- WARB.LER. 



Above olive, browner on the head and greener on the rump ; a well defined 

 luff eye stripe extends from the base of the bill to the nape sometimes (rarely) 

 slight traces of a mesial line are visible ; lores and the space behind the eye 

 brownish olive ; wing coverts brown, the lesser wing coverts with broad olive 

 green margins ; the median wing coverts with obscure pale tips and the greater 

 series with broad well defined bufBsh yellow tips forming a conspicuous pale 

 bar across each wing ; quills brown ; all the secondaries and four or five of the 

 primaries narrowly tipped with greyish white; outside webs of the quills 

 edged with yellowish green and emarginated as far as the sixth ; tail feathers 

 the same, but the inner webs with a narrow greyish white margin ; under parts 

 greenish yellow, nearly white on the throat and shading into buff on the flanks ; 

 inner margin of quills nearly white. Bill dark brown, under mandible paler 

 at base ; legs and feet dark brown ; 4th primary slightly the longest ; 

 second intermediate between 8th and 9th, occasionally between the ^th and Sth^ 

 or 9th and iQth ; ist primary 0*45 to 0*5 5 inch. 



Length. 2-38 to 2-45 inches wing 2-ot to 2-3; tail 1-5 to r8; culmen 

 0*4 to 0-45. 



Bab* Afghanistan, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Rajputana* 

 Central India and the Central Provinces to Nepaul and Cashmere, and probably 

 British Burmah, 



