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greenish yellow ; under surface of body pale greenish-yellow ; 

 the under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; " bill brown 

 above, brownish-yellow below ; legs and feet pale olivaceous 

 grey; iris dark brown" (E. A. Butler]. Total length, 475 

 inches; oilmen, 0-5 ; wing, 2-2 ; tail, 17 ; tarsus 07. 



Range in Great Britain. A specimen of this Indian species 

 was shot by Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh at North Cotes, on the 

 Lincolnshire coast, on the 5th of September, 1896. Mr. 

 Caton Haigh observes : " The weather prevailing at the time 

 of its appearance was such as usually results in a great immi- 

 gration of small birds the wind backing to the East on the 

 night of the 3rd, and blowing a fresh breeze from that quarter 

 on the 4th and 5th, with heavy rain commencing to fall on the 

 afternoon of the 4th, and lasting without intermission for 

 twenty-four hours." 



Range outside the British Islands. Mr. Gatke records three 

 specimens from Heligoland. The home of this species is in 

 Central Asia, as it nests in the Altai Mountains, and in Tur- 

 kestan, as well as in the Himalayas. Its eastern breeding- 

 range extends to the Ural Mountains and North-Eastern 

 Russia. In winter it is spread over the Indian peninsula to 

 Ceylon. 



Habits. An excellent account of this species is given by Mr. 

 Dresser in his " Birds of Europe," from which we learn that it 

 frequents mixed groves and woods ; and, according to Severtzoff, 

 it is to be met with among bushes and the tall steppe-grass. 

 Dr. Scully noticed it amongst the tamarisk and willow bushes, 

 and remarks that it seemed very restless, continually flitting 

 from spray to spray. Both Blyth and Dr. Scully state that its 

 voice is weak, and the former describes the note as tiss-yip, tiss- 

 yip, frequently uttered. Sabanaeff, however, says that the voice 

 of this bird consists of so loud and so strong a trill that it can 

 scarcely be recognised as the song of a Leaf- Warbler, and its 

 call-note, which is a short and shrill psi-psi^ closely resembles 

 that of the Yellow Wagtail." (Cf. Dresser, B. Eur. Suppl. 

 p. 90). 



Nest. One found by Mr. W. E. Brooks in Kashmir, was 

 domed, and placed on a steep bank-side of a ravine full of 



