410 SYLVIID^E. 



conspicuous yellowish tips, forming two distinct wing-bars ; the 

 quills tipped conspicuously with whitish ; tail brown, edged with 

 yellowish green on the outer webs ; lores and ear-coverts mixed 

 brown and yellow ; lower plumage yellowish white ; axiilaries and 

 lower wing-coverts yellow. Before the seasonal moults, the plum- 

 age becomes very dull. 



Upper mandible brown ; lower mandible yellowish white tipped 

 with brown ; legs brow r nish flesh-colour ; iris brown ; claws pale 

 brow^n. 



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

 the second primary is generally intermediate in length between 

 the sixth and seventh ; the first primary measures about *5 inch in 

 length. 



Distribution. A common winter visitor to the eastern portion of 

 the Empire, being found throughout Burma, Assam, and Bengal, 

 to about the longitude of Mudhupnr on the E.I. Railway, where 

 the next species commences to be observed. I have seen no speci- 

 men from the west of Mudhupur ; but Butler records P. superciliosus 

 from the Sahyadri range of hills in the Deccan, and terms it a cold 

 weather visitant, implying by this, I consider, that it is not rare or 

 exceptional. It is remarkable that it should occur in that part of 

 India. 



418. Phylloscopus humii. Hume's Willow- Warbler. 



Abrornis tenuiceps*, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844); 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. 'Nepal, pp. 60, 152 (1846) ; Hodgs. J. A. 



S. B. xxiv, p. 575 (1855). 

 Reguloides superciliosus (Gm.\ apud Brooks, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, 



p. 81 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 364. 

 Reguloides humii, Brooks, S. F. vii, pp. 131, 236, 475 (1878); 



Hume, Cat. no. 565 bis ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 307 ; Brooks, S. F. 



viii, pp. 385, 392, 481 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 231. 

 Phylloscopus humii (Brooks}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 67, pi. iv, 



fig. 1 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 262. 



Coloration. Resembles P. superciliosus but is lighter green above ; 

 the coronal band is still more indistinct and frequently absent 

 altogether ; the supercilium is buff fading to brownish white ; the 

 sides of the head and the lower plumage are suffused with buff ; 

 the lower wing-bar is pale yellowish and the upper one greenish, 

 indistinct or sometimes absent altogether. 



Upper mandible dark brow r n : tip of lower pale brown ; rest of 

 the lower mandible and gape dirty yellow ; iris very dark brown ; 

 legs very dark greenish plumbeous ; feet and claws many shades 

 paler (Davison). 



Of the same dimensions as P. superciliosus ; the first primary is 

 of the same length as in that species, and the second is generally 



* Although this name was published three times over, yet on no occasion 

 was a description of the bird given. 



