416 



Length 5*4; tail 2-2; wing 2*7; tarsus '75; bill from gape 

 65; the second primary is intermediate in length between the 

 seventh and eighth ; the first primary is very large, being about 

 *7 inch long. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to India, not found in Sind, the 

 Punjab, Rajputana, or GKizerat, but ranging south to Ceylon, and 

 eastward to Shillong, whence I have seen a specimen killed in August. 

 This species also occurs very rarely in Burma. Blyth records it 

 from Arrakan. I have examined a specimen from Toungngoo, and 

 Hume states that it is a rare cold-weather visitant to the central 

 portions of Tenasserim *. In the summer it is found along the 

 whole range of the Himalayas, from Kashmir to as far at least as 

 Sikhim. Many birds probably remain in the lower ranges through- 

 out the winter. The nest has not yet been found, but this species 

 undoubtedly breeds in Kashmir. 



425. Acanthopneuste tenellipes. The Pale-legged Willow- 

 Warbler. 



Phylloscopus tenellipes, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 53 ; Brooks, 8. F. iv, 

 p. 276 5 Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 354, 517 ; Hume Cat. no. 556 

 quat. ; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 46 j Oates, S. F. x. p. 222 : id. B. 

 B. i, p. 81. 



Coloration. Upper plumage olive-brown, suffused with ochraceous, 

 especially on the rump ; eye-streak narrow but well defined, ex- 

 tending to the nape, huffish white ; lores and feathers behind the 

 eye blackish ; ear-coverts mingled buff and brown ; wings brown, 

 edged with the colour of the back ; wing-coverts brown, very 

 broadly edged with the colour of the back, the median coverts paler 

 at the tips, forming an indistinct wing-bar ; greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with buff, forming a distinct lower bar ; lower 

 plumage white, suffused with buff, especially on the vent and 

 flanks. 



Upper mandible brown, lower one pale fleshy, dusky at tip ; legs 

 and claws pale flesh-colour ; iris brown. 



Length 5-15 ; tail 2 ; wing 2-7 ; tarsus 73 ; bill from gape -63 ; 

 the second primary is intermediate in length between the sixth 

 and seventh, or sometimes equal to the seventh ; the first primary 

 is about *55 inch in length. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to Burma, but a comparatively 

 rare one. I procured it at Kyeikpadein on a few occasions in 

 January, February, and April. I did not meet with it in any 

 other part of Pegu. Mr. Davison obtained it at various points in 

 Tenasserim, from Kyouknyat down to Malawim, at which latter 

 place my men also got several specimens. Further south it has 

 been procured at Kussoom in the Malay peninsula. 



It probably summers in China and Japan. 



* I have not, however, been able to discover any Tenasserim examples of this 

 species in the Hume Collection. 



