64 PALLAS’S WILLOW-WARBLER. 
must have been lost in the surf if shot; the characteristic bright 
lemon-colour of the rump was observed. No other occurrences in 
Europe have been recorded up to this date; but since 1884 Mr. N. 
Zaroudnoi has found that this species is a tolerably regular migrant 
towards the end of September and early in October, among the 
wooded hills near Orenburg, at the southern extremity of the Ural 
range. 
The summer home of this Warbler is, however, far more to the 
eastward. Pallas described the species from a specimen obtained 
on the Ingoda river, in Transbaikalia, and, according to Taczanowski, 
the bird is generally distributed throughout Eastern Siberia, being 
especially common about Lake Baikal, as well as in Northern China, 
where it nests in the mountain forests ; while on migration it goes as 
far south as Burma. It also breeds in the Himalayas, unless the 
race named by Gatke P. newton should be admitted to the specific 
rank which Mr. Dresser denies it. Captain Cock found several 
nests in May and June at Sonamerg, in Kashmir; these being on 
branches of fir-trees, at elevations varying from 6 to 4o feet, com- 
posed of moss, wool and fibres, profusely lined with feathers, and 
domed, with an entrance at the side. Eggs 6-7, white, spotted with 
dull red and purple, measurements ‘54 by ‘44. Examples obtained 
near Kultuk by Dr. Dybowski are figured in the ‘Journal fiir 
Ornithologie’ for 1873, pl. i. fig. 10. The song is said to be 
melodious and powerful; Mr. Styan renders the call-note as kwee?. 
In the adult the general colour of the upper parts is of a 
yellower tint of olive than in P. superciliosus ; the eye stripe is much 
brighter lemon-colour, and down the middle of the crown is a 
strong yellow stripe which makes the feathers on each side of the 
head seem brownish by contrast; edges of the wing-coverts 
distinctly yellow ; across the rump a broad band of bright lemon- 
colour; the inner web of the outer tail-feathers of white ; under 
parts pale yellowish white. Length 3:7 in., wing 2 in. 
