228 PHTLLOSCOPINJB. 



Phylloscopus magnirostris, Jilt/. 



556. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 191 ; Butler, Deccan ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 408. 



THE LARGE-BILLED TREE WARBLER. 



Length, 5 to 5'25 ; expanse, 8'25 ; wing, 2'6 to 275 ; tail, 2*12 ; 

 tarsus, 075 ; bill at front, 0'5. 



Bill dusky-plumbeous, fleshy at base beneath ; irides dusky ; 

 legs pale plumbeous. 



Above dusky olive-green, with a faint tinge of tawny on the 

 wings and tail ; medial wing-coverts tipped with greenish- white ; 

 a pale yellow supercilium and the lower ear-coverts partly 

 yellow ; beneath pale, the breast tinged with ashy, mingled with 

 faint yellowish, and the rest of the lower parts more or less pure 

 yellowish-white. 



The Large-billed Tree Warbler is a very rare visitant to parts 

 of the Deccan in the cold season ; it has not been recorded from 

 any other portion of our limits. 



Phylloscopus lugubris, Ely. 



558. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 192 ; Butler, Deccan ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 408. 



THE DULL-GREEN TREE WARBLER. 



Length, 475 ; expanse, 7'5 ; wing, 2'5 ; tail, T85 ; tarsus, 075 ; 

 bill at front, 0'4. 



Bill dusky, beneath amber ; irides dusky-brown ; legs greenish- 

 dusky. 



Above dusky olive-green, with a pale yellowish supercilium, 

 and yellowish tips to the medial wing-coverts ; beneath albescent, 

 faintly tinged with yellow medially, and the flanks greenish- 

 yellow. 



This is another very rare winter visitant to parts of the 

 Deccan. 



Phylloscopus nitidus, Lath. 



559. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 193 ; Butler, Deccan ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 408 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology 

 of Sind, p. 159. 



THE BRIGHT-GREEN TREE WARBLER. 



Length, 475 ; expanse, 7'25 ; wing, 2 25 to 2*5 ; tail, 175 to 2 ; 

 tarsus, 07 ; bill at front, 0'4. 



Above lively green, below unsullied pale yellowish, brightest 

 about the breast ; a pale wing-band formed by the tips of the 

 larger coverts of the secondaries. 



This Tree Warbler is common during the cold weather in the 

 Deccan and occurs again in Sind ; it has not been recorded from 

 Guzerat, where probably it has been overlooked. 



