THE PALE-LEGGED WILLOW- WAflBLER. 
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of the rest of the feather_, while in P. viridanus the wing-bar is shaded off 
or blended into the adjoining greenish colour. This distinction is alone 
conclusive. 
(2) The bill is larger, and most conspicuously so when looked at 
from below, the lower mandible being longer and broader at the base. 
The bill is both whiter below and paler brown above. 
^' (3) The different shape of the end of the wing_, the step between the 
second primary and the tip of the wing being much shorter than in P. viri- 
danus. This remark also applies to P. plumbeitarsus and P. lugubris. 
From P. plumbeitarsus its larger size_, longer wing, only one wing-bar, 
paler tone and longer distance between second primary and tip of wing 
separate it. 
'^^From P. lugubris its very much paler tone, smaller first or bastard 
primary and longer distance between second primary and tip of wing 
separate iiJ' 
I recorded the following particulars of the type when I shot it - 
Length 4*7 inches, tail 1*8, wing 2*4, tarsus "78, bill from gape •58.. 
Iris brown ; lower mandible yellow, dusky at the extreme tip ; upper one 
brown ; legs and toes yellowish brown ; claws pale brown. 
I procured the above specimen at Kyeikpadein on the 1 5th of 
November, and Mr. Hume's bird was shot on the 12th of October at a 
spot 100 miles north of Moulmein. Both were males. 
85. PHYLLOSCOPUS TENELLIPES. 
THE PALE-LEGGED WILLOW-WARBLEE. 
Phylloscopus tenellipes, Swinhoe^ Ibis, 1860, p. 53 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 75 ; 
Brooks, S. F. iv. p. 276; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 354, 517; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 102 ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. Mus. v. p. 46 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 222. 
Phyllopneuste tenellipes, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 269. 
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Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage olive-brown, suffused 
with buff, especially on the rump ; eye-streak narrow but well defined, 
extending to the nape, huffish white ; lores and feathers behind the eye 
blackish ; ear-coverts mingled buff and brown ; wings brown, edged with 
the colour of the back ; wing-coverts brown, very broadly edged with the 
colour of the back, the median coverts paler at the tips, forming an in- 
distinct wing-bar ; greater coverts broadly tipped with buff, forming a 
distinct lower bar ; lower plumage white, suffused with buff, especially on 
the vent and flanks. 
Upper mandible brown, lower one pale fleshy, dusky at tip ; legs and 
claws pale flesh-colour ; iris brown. 
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