402 SYLVIIDJE. 



Scully, S. F. viii, p. 306 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 394 ; Seebohm, Birds 

 B. M. v. p. 65 j Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 229 ; Hume, S. F. xi. 

 p. 219. 



Tickets Tree- Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. Upper plumage dull olive-brown ; wings and tail 

 dark brown, narrowly edged with bright olive-brown ; lores and 

 behind the eye dark brown ; a deep yellow supercilium from the 

 nostrils to the nape ; the whole lower .plumage deep yellow, suf- 

 fused with olivaceous on the sides of the neck, breast, and body ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow. 



Legs and feet greenish brown ; claws darker ; lower mandible 

 pale yellow, upper dark brown; iris brown (Cockburn). 



Length about 4'5 ; tail 1/9 ; wing 2-2 to 2-5 ; tarsus *8 ; bill 

 from gape *5 ; the second primary is equal to the ninth or tenth. 



Distribution. Breeds at high elevations along the Himalayas 

 from Kashmir to Sikhirn, and no doubt also in Bhutan and further 

 east. 



This Warbler winters in the plains of India, extending down to 

 the Palni hills. It seems, however, to be unknown in the Punjab, 

 Bajputana, the North- West Provinces, and the greater part of 

 Central India. Its western limit in the peninsula, judging from 

 the specimens I have been able to examine, is a line drawn from 

 Kbandala to Eaipur, and from Raipur to Benares. The birds which 

 summer in the N.W. Himalayas apparently migrate in a south- 

 easterly direction along the hills, and evidently do not enter the 

 plains till they reach Bengal. To the east this bird has been found 

 up the Assam valley as far as Dibrugarh, in the Khasi hills, and in 

 Manipur, and Anderson records it from near Bhamo. 



406. Phylloscopus tytleri. Tytler's Willow-Warbler. 



Cat. B. M. v, p. 66 ; Gates in Humes N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 258. 



Coloration. Upper plumage and the margins of the wings and 

 tail green ; lores and a baud behind the eye blackish ; a super- 

 cilium from the nostrils to the nape pale yellow; lower plumage 

 dull yellow tinged with grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 pure sulphur-yellow. 



Upper mandible dark brown, lower paler brown, yellowish along 

 the eclges ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet dark brownish green ; 

 claws darker ; soles yellowish green (Davison). 



Length about 5 ; tail 1'8; wing 2'4; tarsus 7; bill from gape 

 55 ; the second primary is between the seventh and eighth, or equal 

 to the eighth, sometimes slightly exceeding it. 



Distribution. Summers in the higher elevations of the Himalayas 

 from Kashmir to Kumauu. Winters in the lower portions of the 

 same mountains, and also descends into the peninsula. Specimens 



