BRITISH WARBLERS 



innermost secondaries being tipped with white. The pos- 

 terior edge of the primaries is brownish white. The under 

 parts generally are whitish, but the throat is of a more 

 whitish grey colour tinged with yellow, which colour continues 

 down the breast, where it forms indistinct longitudinal stripes. 

 The abdomen is white, the flanks tinged with greenish yellow, 

 and the under tail-coverts whitish grey washed with light 

 yellowish green. The under side of the tail and wing is greyish 

 lavender, the flight-feathers being edged with white. Axillaries 

 are sulphur yellow and the edge of the wing chrome yellow. 

 The bill is horn black, the lower mandible being buff colour 

 at the base, and the iris dark brown. Feet are flesh brown 

 with yellowish green soles. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



There are only two records of the occurrence of this 

 Warbler in Europe, one being obtained on the coast of 

 Norfolk, and the other on the Island of Heligoland. 



In Eastern Siberia it is by no means rare, occurring 

 in the Province of Yeniseisk, on the Eiver Lena, near Lake 

 Baikal, in the vicinity of Irkutsk, and on the left bank of the 

 River Selenga. It is also found to the south of the River 

 Ussuri, on the borders of Lake Khanka, and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Baranovsk. Large numbers pass through Pekin 

 on migration. Throughout the Himalaya Mountains it 

 appears to be not uncommon, and in winter visits the hills 

 in Manipur and Tenasserim. 



