160 PayLLoscoPiNJ!. 



Phylloscopus sindianus, Brooks, Str. F. vol. viii. p. 4?6. 



''Above uniform dull bi'owU) rather lighter than ia P. triatis, and much 

 the colour of the upper surface of Ht/polais raina; below albescent, 

 with a ruddy tinge on the pale supercilia, sides of face, neck, breast, 

 and flanks j axillariea and edge of wing yellowish white, sometimes 

 almost quite white, and not pure sulphur yellow as in P. tristis ; no 

 greenish on bend or shoulder of wing, nor any green edging to the 

 primaries, secondaries and tail feathers generally observable in P. tristis ; 

 no greenish tinge on rump; like P. neg^.ectus and H. rama, the uniform 

 light greyish brown upper surface is characteristic ; bill Phylioscopine, 

 like tristis, dark brown; the base of lower mandible yellowish." 



Male. Piemale. 



Length.— 4'40 to 4-70 4-20 to 4-45. 



Wing. 2-22 to 2- 4 2-05 to 2-15. 



Tail. 1-85 to 2-05 1-75 to 1- 9. 



Bill at front -3 to -35. 



Hah. — Sukkur, Sind. 



Gen. 'Reguloides.—Blyth. 



Characters same as those of Phylloscopus j wings moderately long and 

 pointed ; 2nd primary shorter than 4th. 



Reguloides occipitalis, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 196, No. 563 ; Brooh, 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 457 ; 1872, p. 29; Hume, Nest and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 362; 

 Miirray, Hdbk., Zool., Sfo., Sind, p. 162. Phylloscopus occipitalis, 

 (Blytli) fide, Sep.bohm, Gat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 50. — Jeedon's Lakge- 

 CEowNiD Willow Warbler. 



Male. — Forehead, interspace between the supercilium and mesial 

 yellow streak on the crown, brown, with a dull greenish tinge ; rest of 

 the upper parts dull olive green, brighter on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts; supercilium bufiy or yellowish white, extending to the na^e; 

 a yellowish mesial line from the forehead to the nape ; wing-coverts 

 olive green, the median and greater coverts with greyish or yellowish 

 white tips, forming two conspicuous bars ; primaries and secondaries 

 brown, margined on their outer webs with the colour of the back, and 

 tipped with greyish white; edge of the wing and under wing and thigh- 

 coverts pale yellow ; tail brown, the feathers margined yellowish green 

 on their outer webs, and all, except the two median ones, margined 

 narrowly with greyish white on their inner webs ; chin, throat, breast, 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts greyish white with a very slight tinge 

 of yellowish on the breast and under tail-coverts ; in some pure greyish 

 white, (probably the summer plumage) with the wing bands nearly 

 absent, or indistinct ; bill dusky brown ; the base of the lower mandible 

 yellowish ; legs pale brown ; irides hazel. 



Length.— 4-75 to 5, wing 2-5 to 2-75, tail 2-0 to 2-15, bill at front 0-5. 



Hab.— Sind, the Punjab (at Montgomery), N. W. Provinces, Oudh, 

 Bengal, Central India, Raipur, N. W. Himalayas, Nepaul, Cashmere, 

 and Southern India. 



