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ad. (Japan). Upper parts greyish olive green, the head darker ; 

 mesial stripe irregular and pale greyish yellow ; superciliary stripe to 

 the nape clearly defined, yellowish white ; two bars across the wing ; 

 under parts white tinged with yellow on the breast and flanks ; lower 

 tail-coverts yellow ; upper mandible brown, lower mandible yellowish ; 

 legs plumbeous ; iris brown. Culrnen 0*52, wing 2'4, tail 2-1, tarsus 07 

 inch ; 1st primary about 0*5 long, 2nd intermediate between 6th and 7th. 

 In the winter the plumage is brighter and yellower. 



Hab. South-easten Siberia, Corea, and Japan in summer, 

 wintering in southern Pegu, Tenasserim, Java, and Malacca. 

 It has once occurred in Heligoland but has not been recorded 

 from elsewhere in Europe. 



According to Godlevski it resembles P. plumbeitarsus in its 

 habits and frequents the foliage of trees and groves, but its call- 

 note and song are different, the former resembling the syllables 

 fititi. Its song is low but melodious. I find nothing on record 

 respecting the nidification except that, like R. occipitalis, its 

 eggs are pure white, unspotted. 



A slightly different form which lacks the coronal band 

 (Acanthopneuste ijimce Stejn. Proc. Nat. Mus. XV. p. 372-1892) 

 inhabits the Idzu Islands, Japan. 



Dr. Julius von Madarasz has also described under the name 

 of Acanthopneuste puella a form from Vladivostock, which also 

 lacks the coronal band of which I have seen the type which is 

 he assures me separable from A. ijimce. 



154. LARGE-CROWNED WILLOW- WARBLER. 

 PHYLLOSCOPUS OCCIPITALIS. 



Phylloscopus occipitalis ( Jerdon) fide Blyth, J. A. Soc. Beng. xiv. p. 593 

 (1845) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 50 ; Pleske Orn. Ross. ii. 

 p. 196, pi. 11, figs. 6, 7 ; (Gates), F. Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 418. 



$ ad. (Himalayas). Resembles P. coronatus, but has the under parts 

 of one uniform tint of colour, and the second primary is intermediate 

 between the seventh and eighth ; bill horn-brown ; legs pale brown ; iris 

 brown. Gape 0'6, wing 2'6, tail 2'1, tarsus 0'7 inch. In the winter- 

 plumage it is rather yellower. 



Hctb. The more elevated portions of the Himalayas, breeding 

 in Kashmir and Turkestan, wintering from the foot of the 

 Himalayas to about the latitude of Belgaum and Nellore, and 

 from Sind to the longitude of Calcutta, and sparingly up the 

 valley of Assam and in North Cachar. 



