PIIYLLOSCO; 240 



Wherever Hume's Barred Willow-Warbler occurs ii is fairly numer- 

 affecting both high trees and shrubby jungles. It breeds in Cashm. 

 8,000 feet. The nest is globular, composed of coarse grass, and placed on the 

 side of a bank : it is usually lined with hair. Kggs, 4 or 5 in number, 0-56 x 

 0*44, white, and profusely spotted with red. 



297- PliyllOSCOptTS SUperciliOSUS, (Grnel.) Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. 

 J\fus. v. p. 68; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxx. 1874; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, 

 Motacilla superciliosus, Gmel. Sys/. Nat. i. p. 975 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 

 p. 87. Reguloides superciliosus, Bl. B. Burm. p. 106 ; Armstrong, Sir. F. 

 iv. p. 329; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 358 ; Brooks, Sir. F. vii. pp. 128; 

 336, 475 5 f?ume,S(r. F. viii. p. 102 ; Brooks, Sir. F. viii.p. 393. Reguloides 

 proregulus, (Pall.) Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 197, No. 566. The YELLOW-BROWELJ 

 BARRED WILLOW- WARBLER. 



Upper plumage olive green, yellower on the rump and upper tail coverts ; 

 a well defined supercilium reaching to the nape pale yellow ; an indistinct 

 pale yellow coronal streak also present and reaching to the nape ; crown of 

 the head slightly darker than the back, also the space before and behind the 

 eye ; wings and wing coverts dark brown, edged with yellowish green, the 

 median and greater wing coverts tipped with yellow, forming wing bars ; quills 

 tipped with whitish ; tail brown, edged with yellowish green on the outer webs 

 and margined with greyish white on the inner ; under surface white, suffused 

 with yellowish green ; axillaries yellow ; under wing coverts and thighs 

 greyish yellow ; bill slender, dark brown, paler at base of lower mandible ; 

 legs, feet and iris brown; 3rd, 4th and 5th primaries longest; second 

 primary intermediate in length between 7th and 8th ; 1st primary 0*5 to 0*55 

 inches. 



Length. 4 inches ; wing 2 f i to 2*35 ; tail 1*7 to r8 ; oilmen 0-4. 



Hab.1\\Q Punjab, N, W. Provinces, Oudh, Central India, Assam, Bengal, 

 British Burmah and Sikkim. 



According to Jerdon the Yellow.browed or, as he calls it, the " Crowned Tree 

 Warbler" is common in most parts of India during the cold weather and at 

 all times on the Himalayas. He got it at Nellore on the Malabar Coast, in 

 Central India, and at Darjeeling. Gates says it is one of the commonest 

 birds in Burmah during winter. It is found abundantly in erery portion of 

 Pegu. Bljth records it from Arrakan. Davison found it in Tcnasserim as far 

 south as Mergui, and Captain Bingham observed it in the Thoungyeen Valley. 

 In the Karin Hills it has been procured up to altitudes of 2,500 feet. It is 

 found throughout the Indo-Burmese countries, also in Sikkim and Assam, 

 According to Blyth it is a solitary bird. It is a cheerful and active bird, 

 frequenting alike large trees and low hedges in pursuit of its insect food, 

 3\Ir. Seebohm says it breeds in North Siberia and at a high elevation in the 

 mountains of South Siberia. The nest he found was composed of dry grass 



