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PHYLLOSCOPUS PLUMBEITAKSUS. 



(GREY-LEGGED WILLOW-WARBLER.) 



Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) coronata, Middendorff, Sib. Reise, p. 182 (1851, nee Teram.). 

 Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 330. 

 Regulus proregulus, Sabanaeff, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1871, p. 248 (nee Pall.). 

 Phyllopneuste middendorffii, Meves, 6fv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. 1871, p. 758. 

 Phyllopneuste plumbeitarsus (Swinh.), Homeyer, Journ. fur Orn. 1872, p. 206. 

 Phyllopneuste (Phyllobasileus) coronatus, Homeyer, J. f. Orn. 1872, p. 207 (nee Temm.). 

 Phyllopneuste excoronatus, Homeyer, J. f. Orn. 1872, p. 207. 

 Ilypolais graminis, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotnie, p. 125 (1873). 

 Phylloscopus viridanus, Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 81 (nee Blyth). 



Figura unica. 

 Meves, Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. 1871, taf. xv. fig. 1. 



Ad. capite et corpore supra griseo-fuscis flavo-viridi lavatis : alis et cauda griseo-fuscis, plumis extus flavo- 

 viridi marginatis : stria, superciliari usque ad nucham producta flavo-albida : alis fasciis duabus flavido- 

 albis notatis : corpore subths albo, pectore et hypochondriis flavo et pallide cinereo lavatis : alis subtiis, 

 axillaribus et tibiis pallide flavis : rostro fusco, maudibula pallide fusco-carnea : iride fusca. : pedibus 

 plumbeis. 



Adult Male (Bystraja, 15th July). Crown, nape, and upper parts generally greyish brown tinged with 

 yellowish green ; wings and tail greyish brown, the feathers externally margined with yellowish green ; 

 the wings crossed by two greenish white bars, the first distinct, the second very indistinct ; sides of the 

 head to below the eye like the crown ; a broad yellowish white superciliary line passes over the eye to 

 the nape; underparts dull white; the cheeks, breast, and flanks washed with grey; axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and thighs pale yellowish, third and fourth primaries longest, fifth rather shorter, sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth graduatedly shorter, second primary intermediate between the seventh and eighth ; 

 bastard primary rather long, the exposed part measuring 0"63; upper mandible brownish, under 

 mandible pale fleshy brown; iris dark brown; legs plumbeous. Total length about 4 - 5 inches, 

 culmen 0'45, wing, 2 - 45, tail 2'05, tarsus 0'8. 



Young (Tjubuk, 21st July). Resembles the adult, but is rather more greenish in colour. 



This species, like many of the Willow- Warblers, has been not a little confused with allied 

 species ; and therefore its range is yet but unsatisfactorily defined. It certainly, however, ranges 

 slightly into the limits of the Western Palfearctic Region in Russia, and breeds there. 

 Mr. Meves, who was the first to record its occurrence in Europe, writes (J. f. O. 1875, p. 429) 

 as follows: — "When referring to this species in 1871 I did not expect to find it on my second 

 journey in 1872 breeding within European limits. I first saw and heard it near the town of 

 Perm, on the further shore of the Kama, where it was uttering its powerful, clear, somewhat 



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