162 NORTHERN WILLOW WREN. 



bands on the upper plumage, and it then very much resembled 

 Ficedula coronata of Temminck and Schlegel. 



"The short-beaked form of Middendorff is in some points distinct 

 from the species just described. The following table gives the 

 dimensions of fourteen species from North Russia, Siberia, Manilla, 

 and China." — For the particulars of this table I must refer to Herr 

 Meves' able pamphlet, which is unfortunately, however, written in 

 Swedish, which is understood by very few people in this country. 



In the plate accompanying the above description, Herr Meves 

 figures what he describes as distinct from *S'. horealis the bird known 

 as Sylvia coronata of Middendorff and Radde, nee Temminck and 

 Schlegel. Herr Meves has given it the name of Phyllopneuste 

 Middendor'ffi.i. It occurs in Ochotzk, Majafloden, and Birjusa. 



A male bird sent to me by Dr. Meves has the upper parts bright 

 olive green; the wing feathers hair brown, but fringed with olive 

 green, so as to give all the wing, except its extremity, when closed, 

 a verdant appearance. Above the eye is a yellow streak, and a 

 similar coloured band crosses the wing near the shoulder twice, giving 

 the double-banded appearance which characterizes the genus Phyllos- 

 copus. The tail feathers hair brown. All the under parts (except 

 the tail feathers, which are like the wings,) clear yellowish white. 

 Axillary plumes yellow; the rest of the wing underneath slaty brown, 

 fringed with yellow. The first or bastard primary is very short, 

 being only about half an inch in length; the second and fifth equal, 

 and shorter than the third and fourth, which are equal and the longest 

 in the wing. Length five inches; tarsus three quarters of an inch; 

 middle toe, without claw, half an inch, hind claw larger; beak from 

 gape half an inch. 



The male bird figured is from the specimen above described, and 

 was sent to me by Dr. Meves, of Stockholm. I have not an authentic 

 eg^, but no doubt it is very similar to that of its congener, our 

 well-known Willow Wren. 



