PHYLLOSCOPUS VIKIDANUS. 



(GREENISH WILLOW-WARBLER.) 



Phyllopneuste rufa (nee Lath.), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 191 (1842). 



Phylloscopus viridamis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xii. p. 967 (1843). 



Phyllopneuste affinis (nee Tickell), Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 98 (1843). 



Phyllopneuste viridanus (Blyth), Gray, App. Cat. Mamm. &c. Nepal, &c. p. 152 (1846). 



Pegulus viridanus (Blyth), Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 175 (1848). 



Abrornis viridana (Blyth), Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 290 (1850). 



Phyllopneuste viridana (Blyth), Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 156. 



Ficedula (Phyllopneuste) rniddendorffii, Meves, var. intermedia, Severtz. Turk. Jevotn. 



pp. 65 & 125 (1873). 

 Phylloscopus middendorffi (nee Meves), Severtz. Stray Feathers, iii. p. 427 (1875). 

 Phyllopseuste viridana (Blyth), Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 122 (1877). 

 Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus, Swinh., Dresser, Birds of Eur. ii. p. 507 (1878, partim). 

 Phylloscopus pseudo-borealis, Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 66 (partim). 

 Acanthopneuste viridanus (Blyth), Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 414 (1889). 

 Phylloscopus (Acanthopneuste) viridamis (Blyth), Pleske, Ornithographia Bossica, p. 176 



(1891). 



Figures notabiles. 

 Henderson and Hume, Lahore to Yark. pi. xix.; Pleske, Orn. Ross. pi. ii. fig. 3. 



Ad. corpore supra sordide fusco-olivaceo : uropygio pallidiore : subtus albo-olivaceo cervino lavato : stria 

 superciliari flavido-cervina : remigibus et rectricibus sordide fuscis, in pogonio externo olivaceo 

 marginatis : tectricibus alarum majoribus albido apicatis fasciam singulam formantibus : rostro fusco : 

 mandibula ad basin pallidiore : pedibus sordide plumbeis : iride fusca. 



Adult Male (Muddapur, April 28th) . Upper parts dull olivaceous green, lighter on the rump ; a distinct 

 streak over the eye huffy yellow ; wings and tail dull dark brown ; the quills margined with olive-green 

 on the outer web ; larger wing-coverts broadly tipped with dull white, forming a single distinct band 

 across the wing ; tail-feathers, except the middle ones, narrowly margined with olive-green ; under- 

 pays white, washed with pale greenish buff: bill brown, the lower mandible much paler at the base; 

 legs brownish slate or dull slate-grey ; iris dark brown, Total length about 4"5 inches, culmen - 5, 

 wing 2'35, tail L75, tarsus - 75 ; second primary intermediate between the seventh and eighth, the 

 third, fourth, and fifth longest. 



The female does not differ from the male in plumage, but is, on an average, rather smaller in size. In the 

 summer the plumage becomes browner on the upper parts, and rather paler on the underparts, owing 

 to abrasion, and the alar bar becomes less distinct ; in the autumn the upper parts are greener, the 

 underparts more yellow in tinge, and the alar bar is more distinct ; and in the winter the plumage, 



