62 YVELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. 
tains of Lake Baikal northward to the Arctic circle. The bird 
passes through Mongolia and North China on migration, and winters 
in South China, Assam, Burma and North-eastern India (Seebohm). 
Canon Tristram obtained it at Jericho; and Severtzoff found it 
nesting in Turkestan up to about 8,500 feet. 
The account of the finding in Kashmir of a nest and eggs supposed 
to belong to this species, was given by Mr. W. E. Bruoks in ‘ The 
Ibis’ for 1872; and reproduced in the 4th Edition of ‘ Yarrell’s 
British Birds,’ as well as in Mr. Dresser’s ‘Birds of Europe’; but 
the parent bird was subsequently distinguished by Mr. Brooks 
himself as P. humiz. Seebohm obtained the first authenticated nest 
of the typical Yellow-browed Warbler, on June 26th, 1877, in the 
forest between the Kurayika and the Yenesei. It was built in a 
slight tuft of moss and bilberry, domed, exactly like the nest of 
our Willow-Wren, and composed of dry grass and moss, with a 
lining of reindeer-hair. The eggs, 6 in number, are pure white, 
thickly spotted at the larger end with reddish-brown ; measurements 
*6 in. by 45 in., one of them being figured by Seebohm on PI. ro 
of his ‘British Birds,’ a work which contains the best account 
extant of this Warbler. In its habits, says Gatke, this bird has little 
affinity with the restless Golden-crests, which it only resembles in 
size and the double bar across the wings; and in Heligoland it is 
universally known by a name equivalent to ‘ Barred Willow-Warbler.’ 
When it alights on a tree, it begins at the lower branches and works 
steadily up to the top, searching for its insect food. Gatke describes 
the note as yz, a little drawn out. 
The bird in autumn has the crown olive-brown, with a very pale 
ill-defined line down the centre; a strong yellowish-white stripe 
over the eye from the base of the bill to the nape; a short streak of 
the same colour beneath the eye, and a narrow dusky band passing 
through the eye to the ear-coverts; neck, back and rump olive- 
green ; ridge of the wing bright lemon-colour ; wing-feathers dusky, 
with pale yellow edges which become broader and whiter on the 
secondaries; two conspicuous bands of lemon-colour across the 
coverts (in the Golden-crest these markings are spot-like); tail 
brown, the inner web of the outer feathers edged with white ; under 
parts pale yellow on the flanks, whiter on the belly, bill brown, paler 
at the base ; legs and toes brown, with the under surface of the toes 
inclining to yellow. In summer the green and yellow of the plumage 
have largely suffered from abrasion, and the general tints are olive- 
grey. Length 3°8 in. ; wing 2°15 in. 
