408 SYLVIID^E. 



pairs of feathers brown, edged on the outer webs with yellowish 

 green, the three outer pairs white on the inner webs and on the 

 basal halves of the outer webs, the remainder of the outer webs 

 being brown ; supercilium buffish green ; sides of the head mingled 

 brown and green : lower plumage greenish yellow. 



Bill black ; base of lower mandible and gape yellow ; irides dark 

 brown ; feet dusky greenish, the soles greenish yellow ; claws 

 dusky (Scully). 



Length 4-2; tail 1*75; wing 2-4; tarsus -8 ; bill from gape -5 ; 

 the second primary is about equal to the tenth ; the first primary 

 measures about -6 inch in length. 



Distribution. The Himalayas, from Chamba to Bhutan. This 

 species has also been found in the Khasi and Naga hills, in 

 Manipur, Karennee, and on Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim. It 

 has not been observed in the Peninsula of India. It is probably a 

 resident where it is found. It has been procured up to 13,000 ft. 

 elevation in Sikhim. 



415. Phylloscopus proregulus. Pallas's Willow- Warbler. 



Motacilla proregulus, Pall. Zooc/r. Rosso-Asiat. i, p. 499 (1811). 

 Abrorms chloronopus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 

 Reguloides chloronotus (Hodgs.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 184 ; Horsf. $ M. 



Cat. i, p. 343 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 197. 

 Reguloides proregulus (Pall.}, Hume, N. 8f E. p. 368 ; id. fy Henders. 



Lahore to Yarkand^. 220 ; Hume # Dav. S. F. vi, p. 358; Hume, 



Cat. no. 566 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 309 ; Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 392 ; 



Hume, S. F. xi, p. 222. 

 Phylloscopus proregulus (Pall.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. \, p. 71 ; 



bates, B. B. i, p. 89 ; id. in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 260. 



The Yellow-rumped Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. A broad well-defined coronal streak and a super- 

 cilium extending to the nape pale yellow ; the head dark olive- 

 brown; upper plumage olive-brown, lighter than the head ; rump 

 bright yellow ; wings and wing-coverts brown, the outer webs all 

 margined with greenish yellow, the median and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with pale yellow, forming two wing-bars ; tail 

 olive-brown, edged with greenish yellow; sides of the head 

 mingled brown and yellow ; lower plumage white, suffused with 

 grey and yellow axillaries and under wing-coverts yellow. Before 

 the seasonal moults the plumage becomes much faded. 



Upper mandible black; the lower mandible dusky, yellowish at 

 the base ; irides dark brown ; gape orange ; feet dingy greenish 

 brown ; claws dusky ; soles yellowish green (Scully}. 



Length 3-5; tail 1-4; wing 2; tarsus '7; bill from gape '42; 

 the second primary is intermediate between the eighth and ninth ; 

 the first primary is nearly -6 inch in length. 



Distribution. Throughout the Himalayas from Haziira and 

 Kashmir to Bhutan. This Warbler also occurs, probably only as 

 a winter visitor, in the Khasi and Naga hills, in Manipur, and in 



