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301- PhyllOSCOpUS SllbviridiS, Brooks, Proc. As. Socy. Bengal, 

 1872, p. 148 ; Hume, Sir. F* iv. p. 494 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br.Mus. v. p. 74 j 

 v [[ f 4! 7. BROOK'S BARRED WILLOW-WARBLER. 



PLATE. 



Upper parts olive green, shading into light yellowish green on the rump j 

 coronal and superciliary streaks ill defined ; lores, behind the eye and inter- 

 spaces on the crown olive ; wings and wing coverts brown, margined with olive 

 green ; the median coverts with slightly paler tips, and the greater series with 

 broad well defined pale tips forming a conspicuous dirty yellowish white 

 bar across the wing ; tail brown, margined externally with yellowish green 

 under surface of body nearly uniform greenish yellow ; legs, feet, claws and 

 irides brown; 4th primary slightly the longest; 2nd generally intermediate 

 between 8th and 9th, 7th and 8th, or 9th and loth. 



Length. 3 '6 inches ; wing 2-3, tail 1*9 ; culmen 6/45. 



ffab. Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh and NepauL Has been recorded 

 from Moorshedabad, Etawah, Cawnpore, and N. W. Himalayas. Breeds in the 

 highlands of N. W. Cashmere, 



302. Phylloscopus sindianus, Brooks, Stt\ F. viii. p. 476 ; 



Murray, Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 160. The SitfD BARRED WILLOW-WARBLER. 



" Above uniform dull brown, rather lighter than in P. tristis, and much the 

 colour of the upper surface of Hypolais rama ; below albescent, with a ruddy 

 tinge on the pale supercilia, sides of face, neck, breast and flanks ; axillaries 

 and edge of wing yellowish white, sometimes almost quite white, and not 

 pure sulphur yellow as in P. tristis ; no greenish on bend or shoulder of wing, 

 nor any green edging to the primaries, secondaries and tail feathers generally 

 observable in P. tristis ; no greenish tinge on rump ; like P. neglectus and 

 //. rama, the uniform light greyish brown upper surface is characteristic ; 

 bill Phylloscopine, like trislis, dark brown ; the base of lower mandible 

 yellowish/' 



Male, length. 4-40 to 470; wing 2'22 to 2*4 ; tail 1*85 to'2*05 ; bill at 

 front -3 to '35. 



Female, length. 4*20 to 4*45 ; wing 2-05 to 2-15; tail 1*75 to 1-9. 

 Hab. Sukkur, Sind. 



Gen. HypOlaiS. Brehm* 



Bill slender, wide basally j rictal bristles few ; wings moderate axillaries 

 buff, white or grey ; greater wing coverts without pale tips bastard primary 

 extending beyond or shorter than the primary coverts or considerably less 

 than half the length of the second ; 3rd and 4th quills longest ; tail even or 

 rounded ; no white on outermost feather j tarsus scutellated in front. 



