250 TURDID/E. 



and moss, and lined with reindeer hair. The structure is semi-domed and 

 built usually in a small tuft of grass, moss, and bilberries. The nest contained 

 six white eggs, spotted with reddish. 



298. PhyllOSCOpUS maCUlipenniS, (Blyth} Seebohm, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. v. p. 70; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 107. Abrornis chloronotus, Hodgs. 

 MS. Drawings B. Nepaul ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 372. HODG- 

 SON'S BARRED WILLOW-WARBLER. 



Upper parts yellowish green, the rump with a broad yellow band. Head, 

 nape, hindneck, lores and space behind the eye dark olive brown ; mesial 

 line on crown and eye stripe pale buff ; wing coverts and quills brown, 

 margined with yellowish green ; the median and greater coverts tipped with 

 yellow and forming two bars across the wing ; innermost secondaries tipped 

 with white on the outer web ; tail brown, externally edged with yellowish green ; 

 2 to 3 outermost feathers on each side white, the basal third of the outer web 

 yellow and the terminal third of the same brown ; under surface greyish white ; 

 the axillaries and under wing coverts, also the middle of the abdomen, greyish 

 yellow; legs and claws brown; ist primary half the length of 2nd ; 2nd 

 equal to xoth ; 4th and 5th longest. 



Length. 3-3 inches ; wing i'8 to 2-0 ; tail 1*3 to i '6 ; culmen 0^35 to 0-4, 



Hab. The Himalayas from Nepaul to Sikkim. Breeds probably in the pine 

 districts. 



299- PhyllOSCOpUS proregUlUS, (Pall.) Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, pp. 

 104, 162; id. Cat. B. Br. Mus.v. p. 72. Motacilla proregulus, Pall. Zooh 

 Rosso. As. i. p. 499. Abrornis chloronopus, Hodgs. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 

 82. Reguloides chloronotus (Hodgs) Jtrd. B. Ind. ii. p. 197, No. 566. 

 Reguloides proregulus (Pall.) Seebohm, Ibis, 1863, p. 307 et sub-seq. ; Blanf. 

 J. A. S. B. xli. pt. 2, p. 53 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 368 ; id. Str. 

 F. vi. p. 368 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. viii. p. 102 ; Scully, Sir. F. viii. p.. 

 309 ; Brooks, Sir. F. viii. p. 392. PALLAS'S BARRED WILLOW- WARBLER. 



Upper parts dark green, the head slightly darker ; coronal stripe and supercilia 

 pale yellow ; rump yellowish green to bright yellow ; wings and wing coverts 

 brown, the outer webs of all margined with greenish yellow, and the median 

 and greater coverts broadly tipped with pale yellow forming two wing bars ; 

 quills margined with greyish white on their inner web ; tail olive brown, edged 

 with greenish yellow externally ; the inner webs and shafts of the three outer- 

 most feathers on each side pure white, and the outer webs of these yellowish 

 white tinged with greenish basally and brown terminally ; under surface dull 

 greenish yellow, brighter on the middle of the abdomen ; axillaries, under wing 

 and tail coverts and thighs yellow ; legs light brown ; bill dark brown ; the 

 lower mandible dusky ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 3-5 inches; wing 1*95 to 2*05; tail 1*4 to r6 ; tarsus 07; 

 culmen 0-3 to o 4. 



