316 A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



recorded : England. Twenty-four obtained and six seen, viz., Scilly 

 Isles, three ; Gloucester., one ; Kent, two seen ; Sussex, one ; 

 Suffolk, one seen, one shot ; Norfolk, six obtained, and one seen ; 

 Lines., six; Yorks., five; Northumberland, one: Notts., two 

 probable seen. Scotland Many recorded, viz. : Dumfries., one 

 seen ; Kircudbrightshire, one seen ; Berwickshire, one seen ; Isle 

 of May (Forth), twenty -one ; east Ross., two ; Fair Isle (Shet- 

 iands), fairly regular in small numbers in autumn ; Sumburgh 

 Head (Shetlands), one ; Lerwick (Shetland) one ; Auskerry 

 (Orkneys) one ; Swona (Orkneys), one ; Pentland Skerries (Orkneys) 

 three seen ; Skerryvore Light (0. Hebrides), one. Ireland. One, 

 Tearaght Light (Kerry). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in Siberia, migrates through 

 greater part of Asia, and winters in southern China and India. 

 Appears not rarely in Europe, from Orenburg and west Russia to 

 Heligoland, Germany, Holland, Austria, and Italy. Replaced 

 by allied forms in Altai, Tian-shan, Himalayas, and mountains 

 south of Brahmaputra. 



PHYLLOSCOPUS PROREGULUS 



132. Phylloscopus proregulus proregulus (Pall.) PALLAS'S 

 WARBLER. 



MOTACILLA PROREGULUS Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., i, p. 499 (1827 



Transbaikalia). 



Phylloscoptis proregiilus (Pallas), Saunders, p. 63. 



DESCRIPTION. Adult male and female. Winter. Fore-head golden- 

 green ; crown dark green with a greenish-yellow stripe down 

 centre, and brighter broad stripe from nostrils over eye continuing 

 down sides of nape these stripes spreading and breaking up some- 

 what on the nape give the whole nape a streaked appearance ; 

 mantle, scapulars, back and upper tail-coverts green ; rump pale 

 greenish-yellow ; line through lores and extending behind eye to 

 base of neck dark green ; ear-coverts greyish or yellowish usually 

 mottled dark green ; under-parts greyish-white tinged greenish- 

 yellow, especially under tail-coverts ; axillaries white edged bright 

 greenish-yellow ; tail-feathers brown outer webs edged yellowish- 

 green ; primaries same with inner webs narrowly edged whitish ; 

 secondaries same but with brown basal portions of outer webs 

 showing 2 or 3 mm. beyond coverts and outer webs of innermost 

 feathers broadly edged pale yellow ; primary -coverts dark brown 

 narrowly edged green ; greater and median coverts dark brown 

 edged green and broadly tipped greenish -yellow forming con- 

 spicuous double wing-bar ; lesser coverts green with brown bases. 

 This plumage is acquired by complete moult in Aug.-Sept. Sum- 

 mer. The body-plumage is moulted in March and April but 



