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In summer it retires to the higher parts of the Himalayas, win -re 

 it breeds commonly. 



//!>its r cf-c. Breeds in Kashmir and the north-west Himalayas 

 from May to July, constructing a rude nest of moss and leaves in 

 a hole pt the root of a tree, and laying five pure white eggs, which 

 '65 by "5. 



429. Acanthopneuste trochiloides. Blyth's Crowned Willow- 

 Warbler. 



Acanthiza trochiloides, Sundev. Physiogr. Salhkapets Tidsk. \, (1838) 



id. A. M. N. H. xviii, p. 252 (1846). 



Phyllopneuste reguloides, Blyth, J. A. S. X. xi, p. 191 (1842). 

 Reguloides trochiloides (Simdev.), Blyth, Cat. p. 184; Horsf. $ M. 



Cat. i, p. 343 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 196 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, 



pt. ii, p. 46 ; Hume, Cat. no. 564 ; Scully, 8. F. viii, p. 307 ; Brooks, 



S. F. x, p. 169. 

 Phylloscopus viridipennis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 275 (1855) ; 



Anders. Yunnan Exped. , Aves, p. 626. 

 Reguloides viridipennis (Blyth}, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 198 ; Brookes, S. F. 



iii, p. 245 ; Scully, S. F. iv, p. 149. 



Phylloscopus flavo-olivaceus, Hume, S. F. v, p. 504 (1877). 

 Reguloides flavo-olivaceus (Hume), Hume, Cat. no. 564 bis ; id. S. F. 



ix, p. 291. 



Phylloscopus trochiloides (Stmdev.), Oates, S. F. x, p. 223. 

 Phylloscopus reguloides (Blyth), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 61 j 



bates, B. B. i, p. 85. 



The Median Crowned Warbler ; the Green-winced Warbler, Jerd. 



Coloration. Similar to A. ocdpitalis, from which this species 

 differs in being much darker green above, in having the hinder part 

 of the crown and nape darker, in being smaller, and in having the 

 second primary intermediate between the eighth and ninth or the 

 ninth and tenth, or even equal to the first secondary. 



Upper mandible dark brown ; lower one with the gape, and the 

 edges of the upper yellow;, mouth orange-yellow; iris dark hazel- 

 brown ; legs yellowish brown ; claws light brown. 



Length about 4*5; tail 1*8; wing 2'1 to 2'3; tarsus '7; bill 

 from gape *6 ; the first primary measures about -6. 



Distribution. In winter this species appears to be found in 

 Bengal, the Assam valley up to Dibrugarh, and southwards through 

 the hill-tracts to Southern Pegu and the northern parts of Tenas- 

 serim. 



In summer it has been observed in the Himalayas from Kashmir 

 to Sikhim, and probably it also winters in the lower valleys 

 of these parts. Stoliczka observes that in summer it is common 

 ah 1 through the valley of the Sutlej river from Kotgarh to Chini, 

 where it breeds from 9000 to 10,000 feet. Scully observed it 

 in Turkestan. Its nest has not yet been found. 



