YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. 443 



PA SSEKES. S YL VIID^E. 



PHYLLOSCOPUS SUPERCILIOSUS (J. F. Gmelin*). 

 THE YELLOW-BEOWED WARBLER. 



Regulus modestus f. 



A SPECIMEN of this bird was recorded in the ' Annals of 

 Natural History ' (ii. p. 310) for December, 1838, by Mr. 

 John Hancock, as having been shot by him on the banks near 

 Hartley, on the coast of Northumberland, September 26th, 

 1838. Struck by the likeness which the specimen bore to 

 the figure of a bird described under the name of Regulus 

 modestus or " Dalmatian Eegulus " by Mr. Gould in the 

 Twelfth part of his < Birds of Europe ' published in 1837, 

 Mr. Hancock identified his new addition to British ornithology 

 with that species, and his determination was left unques- 

 tioned for a long time. Meanwhile it was shown, in 1840, 

 by Count Keyserling and Prof. Blasius (Wirbelth. Eur. p. Iv.) 

 that Mr. Gould's Regulus modestus was no new species at all, 

 but one described many years before by Pallas (Zoogr. Rosso- 



* Motacilla mperciliosa, J. F. Ghnelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 975 (1788). 

 t Not Regulas modestus of Gould. 



