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proof as to what it really was. The present species does not appear to have ever occurred in 

 Scandinavia; and though Blasius (Naumannia, 1855, p. 485) says that he observed it in the 

 region of the Dwina in the month of August, this statement cannot be received without con- 

 siderable caution, as no other naturalist appears to have obtained it in North-eastern Russia, 

 and the Eussian naturalists do not appear to have distinguished between the present species and 

 Phylloscopus proregulus. The only other records of its occurrence in Europe are as follows : — One 

 was, according to Mr. Gould (I. c), obtained within a mile of Cheltenham on the 11th October, 

 1867, by Mr. J. T. White; a male was, according to Herr Crommelin (I. c), obtained at Leyden, 

 in Holland, on the 15th September, 1861, and lived eight days in captivity; and Herr von 

 Pelzeln (/. c.) states that a specimen, which Professor Newton identifies with the present 

 species, was obtained near Vienna in 1836, and lived for half a year in the museum there. 

 According to Signor Lanfossi (/. c.) a specimen was obtained in the Milan territory in October 

 1847; but Salvadori expresses great doubt respecting this occurrence, as resting only on the 

 word of a dealer not too trustworthy in his statements. Signor Perini states that it is common 

 in the Veronese territory ; but Salvadori considers that the bird referred to by that gentleman is 

 not the present species, but a small race of the Chiffchaff. 



The present species was obtained by Canon Tristram at Jericho, but does not appear to 

 have been obtained by any other naturalist in Asia Minor or Palestine, nor has it been recorded 

 from Africa. In Asia it occurs in Turkestan, Siberia, India, and China. Severtzoff says 

 (Turkest. Jevotnie, p. 65) that it is a partial migrant to Turkestan, and breeds there regularly 

 in the elevated districts. He met with it nesting in the Karatan Mountains at an elevation of 

 about 3000 feet, and in the Thian-shan range up to about 8500 feet, or as high as the birch- 

 growth extended. Its range in Siberia is rather difficult to define, as both Middendorff and 

 Eadde looked on the present species and P1ujllosco])US jM'oreffidus as being the same bird. 

 The former of these gentlemen says that he found these two species in the Stanovvoi Mountains 

 and in the islands of the Sea of Ochotsk. Dr. Radde, who also failed to discriminate between 

 the two species, says that they arrived at the Tarei-nor about the 15th May, and, like the 

 Goldcrests, they remained late in the autumn migration, as he observed them in 1856 in the 

 gardens at Kulussutajefsk from the 15th of August to the 21st September; and he also met with 

 them on the central Onon, and obtained specimens on one of the Onon Islands, near the old 

 fortress, on the 21st September. In the Bureja Mountains he saw them from the 25th August 

 till the early part of September. Dr. von Schrenck, who states that the species was obtained 

 by Mr. Maack on the Upper Amoor, certainly refers to Phylloscopus siiperciliosus only. I 

 have received specimens both of the present species and of Phylloscopus proregulus from the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Baikal. Dr. Jerdon (I. c.) says that " it is tolerably common in most 

 parts of India during the cold weather, and at all times on the Himalayas. I have got it at 

 Nellore, on the Malabar coast, in Central India, and at Darjeeling; and it also appears to be 

 common about Calcutta." Hodgson records it from Nepal ; and Mr. W. E. Brooks says that he 

 " frequently saw it on the way up from Kaleedoongy to Nynee Tal in April, but never met 



with the bird at Nynee Tal or at Almorah Among the many skins of P. viridanus I found 



one of this bird, shot on the 29th of April, 1868, near the top of the Kale-Mut Hill, three miles 

 north of Almorah. It was a solitary bird ; and from the bleak place in which I found it, with 



