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426. Acanthopneuste lugubris. The Dull-<jreen Willow-Warbler. 



Phyllopneuste lugubris, Blyth, A. M. N. H. xii, p. 93 (1843) id. 



J. A. S. B. x.i\, -p. 968. * 

 Phylloscopus lugubris (Blyth), Blyth, Cat. p. 185 ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. 



i', p. :|:I7; Jerd. B.I. ii, p. 192 j Blanf* J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, 



p. o.3 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 329 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. yi, p. 355 ; 



Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 024 ; Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 480 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 558 ; id. S. F. ix, p. 255 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 448 ; 



Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 48 j Oates, B. B. i, p. 83 j Barnes, Birds 



Bom. p. 228 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 219. 

 Phylloscopus burmanicus, Brooks, S. F. ix, p. 272 ; Oates, S. F. x, 



p. 223 ; id. B. B.\,y. 80. 



The Dull-yreen Tree- Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. Very similar to A. magnirostris, but ratber darker 

 and smaller, and differing also in tbe proportions of the primaries. 



Upper mandible dark brown, lower one yellowish, somewhat 

 dusky on the terminal half ; iris brown ; mouth yellow ; legs 

 brown; claws horn-colour. 



Length 5 ; tail 2-1 ; wing 2-6 ; tarsus *75 ; bill from gape "62 ; 

 the second primary is intermediate in length between the ninth 

 and tenth, and sometimes equals the tenth ; the first primary 

 is very long, being sometimes '8 inch in length. 



Distribution. Winters in Bengal, the Assam valley, and the 

 whole of the country south of this to the central portion of Tenas- 

 serim. Jerdon states that this bird is spread throughout India, and 

 that he procured it in the Kilgiris, the Wynaad, and also at Nellore. 

 More recent observers have recorded it from Ahmednagar, Nagar, 

 and the Punch Mahals. I have myself been unable to detect any 

 specimens of this species in the British Museum collection from 

 any locality west of Bengal and Sikhim, and I have doubts about 

 its being so widely spread as Jerdon asserts, and still more of its 

 being found so far to the west as the Panch Mahals and the Deccan. 

 In winter it occurs in the Andamans. 



It summers in the higher parts of Sikhim, and probably in other 

 parts of the Himalayas east of this. Hodgson obtained this bird, 

 but his notes do not state whether his specimens were procured in 

 Nepal or Sikhim, and it was most likely in the latter, where he 

 collected very largely. Scully failed to meet with it in Nepal. 



427. Acanthopneuste coronatus. TemmincTcs Crowned Willow- 

 Warbler. 



Ficedula coronata, Temm. $ Schleg. Fauna Jap., Aves, p. 48, 



pi. xviii, (1847). 



Phyllopneuste corcmata (T. $ &), Brooks, S. F. iv, p. 275. 

 Reguloides corouata (T. $ 8.), Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 356; Hume, 



Cat. no. 563 bis ; id. S. F. xi, p. 220. 

 Phylloscopus coronatus (T. fy S.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 49; 



bates, >S'. F. x, p. 223 ; id. B. B. i, p. 84. 



Coloration. Upper plumage olive-green, the head suffused with 

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