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dotted with purplish red, and occasionally marked with a few 

 violet-gray shell spots, and measure about 0'52 by 0*42 inch. 

 In south-eastern Europe a small form (Ph. brehmi Homey er) 

 occurs, differing only in being somewhat smaller in size. 



140. SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF. 

 PHYLLOSCOPUS TRISTIS. 



Phylloscopus tristis, Blyth, J. As. S. Beng. xii. p. 966 (1843) ; (Gould), 

 B. of Asia, iv. pi. 59 ; Dresser, ii. p. 477 ; Sabanaeff, Pozv. sredi 

 Uralya, p. 89 (1874) ; Seebohm, Ibis. p. 10. 1879 ; id.. Cat, B. Br. 

 Mus. v. p. 63 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 403. 



Tysclikan-turgai, Kirghis. 



$ ad. (Ural). Resembles Ph. collyUta, but is smaller, the upper parts 

 are browner and the under parts whiter, and the bill and legs much darker. 

 Culmen 0'44, wing 2*3, tail 1'92, tarsus 0'8 inch ; first primary short, 

 only 0'3 longer than the primary coverts, the 2nd 0'3 shorter than the 3rd 

 and a trifle shorter than the 7th, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th nearly equal, the 

 4th longest. The female is rather smaller, and in the autumn both sexes 

 are browner and duller than in the summer. 



Hal . Eastern Europe as far west as the Petchora ; northern 

 Asia as far south as Kashmir, but how far east we do not know, 

 except that it breeds in the valley of the Yenesei. In winter it 

 occurs over the whole of India, from Sind to Dacca and south to 

 about the latitude of Bombay. 



It differs from the Chiffchaff in having a loud song though 

 poor in quality, and its call note resembles the word chi-vit. It 

 breeds in July, building a domed nest of grass, profusely lined 

 with feathers, and lays 5 to 7 white eggs, finely spotted with 

 reddish brown which measure about 0'56 by 040 inch. 



141. PLAIN WILLOW- WARBLER. 

 PHYLLOSCOPUS NEGLECTUS. 



Phylloscopus neglectus, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 143 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. v. p. 131 ; Pleske, Orn. Eoss. ii. p. 412, pi. 3, figs. 3, 4 ; 

 Dresser, ix, p. 79, pi. 650, fig. 1 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. 

 p. 406 ; P. lorenzi, Severtzoff, fide Lorenz, Beitr. Orn. Nords. 

 Kauk. p. 28, Taf. ii. fig. 2. 



$ ad. (Transcaspia). Upper parts earthy brown, upper tail-coverts 

 paler ; under parts white tinged with buff ; superciliary streak pale buff ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white tinged with bufty yellow ; bill, 

 legs, and iris dark brown. Culmen 0'37, wing 2 '05, tail 1'65, tarsus 0'75 



