PHYLLOSCOPUS 99 



inch ; ] st primary long, 0'65 shorter than the 2nd, which is intermediate 

 between the 8th and 9th. The female is a trifle smaller than the male. 



Hctb. Transcaspia and Turkestan during the summer, winter- 

 ing in Southern Persia, Baluchistan, Sind, and the Punjab and 

 Doab as far as Agra. 



In its general habits it is very shy and cautious, frequenting 

 close foliaged trees, and is therefore difficult to obtain. It 

 breeds in Transcaspia and Turkestan but its nest and eggs are as 

 yet unknown. In Sind a form differing only in being somewhat 

 larger in size (Ph. sindiamis Brooks, Str. Feath. viii p. 476) is 

 said to be resident. 



142. TICKELL'S WILLOW- WARBLER. 

 PHYLLOSCOPUS AFPINIS. 



Phylloscopus affims (Tickell), J.A.S. Beng. ii. p. 576 (1833) ; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 65 ; Pleske, Prjevalsky's Reisen, Vogel, ii. 

 p. 115, Taf. 3, fig. 5 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 401. 



$ ad. (Himalayas). Upper parts dull olive-brown ; wings and tail 

 dark brown with olive-brown margins ; under parts deep yellow washed 

 with olivaceous on the sides of the neck, breast, and body ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; lores and space behind the eye dark 

 brown ; superciliuin deep yellow ; legs greenish brown ; bill brown, 

 lower mandible pale yellow ; iris brown. Culmen 0*44, wing 2 '4, tail 1'9, 

 tarsus 0-8 inch ; 1st primary about half the length of the 2nd which is 

 equal to the 9th or 10th. The female is smaller than the male and the 

 nestling is browner and has the under parts less regularly coloured. 



Hob. The Himalayas as far west as Kashmir ; Kansu, the 

 Chuanche, the southern Koko-nor and the Burchan Buda 

 mountains and those on the Dy-tschu river ; winters in the 

 plains of India. Prjevalsky says that it breeds in the low 

 gorges of the Keria mountains in Mongolia, but its nest and 

 .eggs are unknown. 



143. EVERSMANN'S WARBLER. 

 PHYLLOSCOPUS BOREALIS. 



Phylloscopus borealis (Blasius), Naumannia, 1858, p. 313 ; (Naumann), 

 xiii. p. 69, Taf. 375, fig. 1 ; Dresser, ii. p. 509, pi. 79 ; (Dybowskr), 

 J.f.O. 1872, p. 358; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 40; (Gates), 

 F. Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 412 ; (Tacz.) F. O. Sib. 0. p. 254 ; P. 

 sylvicultriX) Swinhoe, Ibis. 1860, p. 53 ; P. Jcennicotti, Baird, Trans. 

 Chic. Acad. Sc. i. p. 279, pi. xxx. fig. 2. 



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