PHTLLOSCOPTIS, 



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much less numerous and smaller. Specimens measure from -55 to 

 •65 in length, and from '45 to -5 in breadth. 



Phylloscopus tristis, BlytJi. 



Phylloscopus tristis, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 477 (1875) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1879, p. 10; id. Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 63 (1881); Dates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 403 (1889) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 32 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 213 (1903). 



Phyllopseuste tristis, Vian, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 666. 



PhyUopneuste tristis, Tacz. Faune Orn. SibSr. Orient, p. 271 (1891). 



The eggs of the Brown Willow-Warbler or Siberian Chiffohaff 

 resemble those of P. minor so closely, that no separate description is 



