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dusky ; an irregular greyish-yellow streak from the forehead to the 

 nape over the centre of the head ; a well-defined yellowish-white 

 supercilium reaching to the nape ; lores and feathers behind the eye 

 brown ; ear-coverts mixed yellowish and dusky ; wing-coverts and 

 wings brown, edged with yellowish green, the median coverts with 

 small, the greater coverts with larger, yellowish tips, forming two 

 wing-bars ; tail olive-brown, edged with yellowish green on the 

 outer webs ; lower plumage white, tinged with yellow on the breast 

 and flanks ; lower tail-coverts yellow. The summer plumage is 

 duller, owing to the feathers being abraded. 



Upper mandible brown ; lower mandible yellowish ; mouth 

 yellow ; legs and feet plumbeous. 



Length 5-2; tail 2-1; wing 2-4; tarsus -7 ; bill from gape '6; 

 the second primary is intermediate in length between the sixth and 

 seventh ; the first primary is about -5 inch long. 



Distribution. A winter visitor from September to April in 

 Southern Pegu and Southern Tenasserim, and probably the inter- 

 vening tract. Hume obtained this bird in Manipur in February. 

 It extends to Java in the winter, and it summers in Japan and 

 South-eastern Siberia. 



428. Acanthopneuste occipitalis. The Large Crowned Willow- 

 Warbler. 



Phyllopneuste occipitalis, Jerd., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 593 (1845) ; 



id. Cat. p. 183. 

 Reguloides occipitalis (Jerd.), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 196 ; Godw.-Aust. 



J. A. 8. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 107 j Brooks, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 81 ; 



Cock 8f Marsh. S. F. i, p. 355 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 362 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 563; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 66; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 449; 



Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 230 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 220. 

 Phylloscopus occipitalis (Jerd.}, Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, 



p. 626 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 50. 

 Acanthopneuste occipitalis (Jerd.), Oates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. 



i, p. 267. 



TJie Large Croivned Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. Eesembles A. coronatus very closely. Differs in 

 having the whole lower plumage of one uniform tint, the under tail- 

 coverts not being of a deeper yellow than the other parts, and in 

 having the second primary usually intermediate between the seventh 

 and eighth. 



Legs and feet pale brown, yellowish on feet ; soles yellow ; upper 

 mandible brown, lower one horny brown ; iris brown (Hume Coll.). 



Length about 5'3 ; tail 2-1 ; wing 2'6 ; tarsus *7 ; bill from 

 gape *6 ; the first primary measures about '6. 



Distribution. This "Warbler is found in winter throughout the 

 peninsula of India from the foot of the Himalayas to about the 

 latitude of Belgaum and Nellore, and from Sind to the longitude 

 of Calcutta. It is also found more sparingly to the east of Cal- 

 cutta up the valley of Assam to Dibrugarh, at Shillong, and in 

 North Cachar. 



