406 SYLVIIDJE. 



spring migration the majority of the birds repair to Northern and 

 Central Asia, some few apparently stopping in the Himalayas to 

 breed. 



Habits , $c. Jerdon describes the nest of this bird as being cup- 

 shaped, composed of grass with a few fibres and built on a bank, 

 and the eggs as pinky white, with a few reddish spots. 



411. Phylloscopus neglectus. The Plain Willow- Warbler. 



Phylloscopus neglectus, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 143; id. Cat. no. 554 his ; 



Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 480; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 227. 

 Phyllopseuste neglectus (Hume), Hume, S.F. i, p. 195. 

 Lusciniola neglecta (Hume), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 181. 



Coloration. Upper plumage earthy brown ; wings and tail brown, 

 narrowly margined paler ; a narrow eyebrow pale buff ; lores and 

 behind the eye dark brown ; ear-coverts pale buff; the whole 

 lower plumage very pale buff ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 yellowish white to white. 



Eye dark; bill, legs, and feet very dark brown (Brooks). 



Length about 4; tail 1-5 to 1'65; wing 1-85 to 2-1; tarsus 

 7 to *75 ; bill from gape '4 ; first primary '6 ; second primary 

 equal to the eighth or ninth. 



Distribution. Throughout Upper Sind, along the banks of the 

 Indus. Hume states that in the cold weather this species is 

 common in the Punjab and in the Doab at least as low down as 

 Agra. It is not improbably a resident species in Sind. 



412. Phylloscopus sindianus. The Sind Willow-Warbler. _ 



Phylloscopus sindianus, Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 476 ; Hume, S. F. ix, 

 p. 99, x, p. 118 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 229. 



Coloration. Resembles P. neglectus so closely as to require no 

 separate description, and only differs in being larger. 



Bill dark brown, yellowish towards the base of the lower man- 

 dible ; legs and feet dark brown ; iris dark brown (Brooks). 



Length about 4-5; tail 1'75 to 2-05; wing 2-05 to 2-4; tarsus 

 7 to *8 ; bill from gape *5 ; the first primary '6 ; the second is 

 equal to the ninth. 



Distribution. Sukkur and Sehwan in Sind, and probably through- 

 out that province. It is doubtless a resident species. 



413. Phylloscopus maculipennis*. The Grey -faced Willow- 

 Warbler. 



Ahrornis maculipennis, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 27 ; Hume, S. F. vii, 

 p. 399. 



* However indulgent ornithologists may wish to be to Hodgson, it is, in the 

 case of this bird, most undesirable to attach the name chloronotm to it. Seebohm 

 has fully stated the case, and so has Hume ; and after a personal investigation 

 into the matter I agree with the former and also, I may add, with Brooks in 

 their views of the question. 



