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PHYLLOSCOPUS SUPERCILIOSUS. 

 YELLOW-BROWED WILLOW-WREN. 



(Plate 10.) 



? Motacilla superciliosa, Gmel. Syst. Kat, i. p. 07o (1788) ; et auctorum plurimo- 



rum — (Cabanis), (Sckrenck), (Bli/t/i), (Hadde), (Gould), {Graij), (Newton), 



(Dresser), (David ^ Oustalet), ^-c, 

 ? Sylvia superciliosa (Gmel.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 526 (17!.)0). 

 Regulus modestus, Gould, apud Hancock, Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 310 (18.39). 

 Regulua inornatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 191 (1842). 

 PhjUoacopus modestus (Gould), apud Blyth, J. A. S. Seny. xii. p. 963 (1843). 

 Phyllopneuste modesta (Gould), apud Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. p. !)8 (1843). 

 Reguloides modestus {Gould), apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 442 (1847). 

 Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) proregulus (Pall.), apud Midd. Sib. Reise, p. 183 (1833, 



partiiri). 

 Phyllobasileus superciliosus (Gmel.), Cabanis, Journ. Orn. 18o3, p. 81. 

 Keguloides proregulus (Pall.), apud Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E.I. Co. i. p. 342 



(1854). 

 Ficedula proregulus (Pall), apud Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pp. 130, 241 (1854). 

 Phyllopneuste proregulus (Pall.), apud Blasius, Naum, \iii. p. 311 (18-j8j. 

 Sylvia bifasciata, Gaethe, Naunt. viii. p. 419 (18.J8). 

 Phyllopneuste (Phyllobasileus) superciliosa (Gmel.), Suhrenck, Reis. Forsch. Amur- 



Zande, i. p. 363 (18G0). 

 Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) superciliosa (Gmel.), Naum. Vog. Deiitschl. xiii. pt. 2, p. 74 



(1860). 

 Reguloides superciliosus (Gmel.), Blyth, Uns, 1-^62, p. 386. 

 Phylloscopus pallasii, Dubois, Ois. Eur. p. 83 (18(i2). 

 Phyllopneuste superciliosa (Gmel), Bolle, Jotirn. Orn. 1863, p. 60. 

 Regulus superciliosus (Gmel), Gray, Cut. Brit. B. p. 64 (18IJ.1). 

 Phj'lloscopus superciliosus (Gmel.), Crommelin, Ned. T. D. iii. p. 244 (1866). 

 Sylvia inornata (Blyth), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 216. no. 3066 (1869). 

 Phyllopaeuste proregulus (Pall.), apud Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 120 (1877). 



The breeding-range of the Yellow-browed Warbler is supposed to be 

 confined to the pine-forests of North-eastern Siberia^ from the valley of 

 the Yenesay eastwards to the Pacific, and from the mountains of Lake 

 Baikal northwards to the Arctic circle. It passes through Mongolia and 

 North China on migration, and winters in South China, Assam, Burma, 

 and North-east India. Like some other Siberian birds which winter iu 

 South-east Asia, a few examples appear more or less regularly to take the 

 wrong turning at Yenesaisk, and, instead of accompanying the main body 

 of the migratory species, which follow the course of the Angora through 

 Lake Baikal into the valley of the Amoor, join the smaller stream of 

 migration, which flows westwards into Persia and Europe. 



The history of the Yellow-browed Warbler is quite a little romance, and 



