BLYTH^S WILLOW-WARBLER. 
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Length 5'4 inches^ tail 2'2, wing 2*7, tarsus '75, bill from gape '65: the 
second primary is intermediate in length between the seventh and eighth ; 
the first primary is very large, being about '7 inch long. The female is 
considerably smaller than the male, the wing being about 2' 5 inches in 
length. 
The Large-billed Willow- Warbler is stated by Mr. Blyth to occur in 
Arrakan. I have never met with it in Pegu. Mr. Davison procured it 
in Tenasserim at Wimpong and Thatone, where it was rare. Further 
south Mr. Hume records it from Kurroo in the Malay peninsula. 
It is spread over the whole peninsula of India, Ceylon, and the Anda- 
man Islands, and it summers in the Himalayas along the whole range up 
to Cashmeer. 
Mr. Brooks, who met with this bird in the Himalayas, says : — The 
conditions this bird requires are wooded cliflPs, or very steep rocky banks 
impracticable for man, and plenty of flowing water below. Above a 
roaring torrent it is in its element, and sings most vigorously. The 
discovery of this bird^s nest and eggs will be a great difficulty. It is very 
shy and of a retiring disposition, and the female is rarely seen. But for 
its song, the male also would generally escape observation. The peculiarly 
shrill song I have referred to before (J. A. S. B. 1872, pt. ii. p. 79). It is 
the most melancholy one that could be imagined, but of singular sweetness. 
87. PHYLLOSCOPUS LUGUBRIS. 
BLYTH^S WILLOW- WARBLER. 
Phyllopneuste lugubris, Bl. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, xii. p. 98 ; Wald. in Bl. B. 
Bunn. p. 105. Phylloscopus lugubris, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 192j Armstrong, 
S. F. iv. p. 329 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 78 ; Stime Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 355 ; 
Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 624 ; IIu7ne, S. F. viii. p. 102 ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds 
B. Mus. V. p. 48. 
Description. — Male and female. Almost identical with P.magnirostris in 
coloration, but rather smaller, and differing also in the proportions of the 
primaries. It is also darker in colour. 
Upper mandible dark brown, lower one yellowish, somewhat dusky on the 
terminal half ; iris brown ; mouth yellow ; legs brown ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 5 inches, tail 2*1, wing 2*6, tarsus '75, bill from gape -62: the 
second primary is intermediate in length between the ninth and tenth, and 
sometimes equals the tenth ; the first primary is very long, being sometimes 
•8 inch in length. The female is considerably smaller, the wing not 
exceeding 2*4 inches in length. 
Blyth^s Willow-Warbler is one of the most abundant species of this 
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