RADDE^S BUSH-WAUBLER. 
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Genus HEEBIVOCULA, Swinhoe. 
94. HERBIVOCULA SCHWARZI. 
RADDE^S BUSH-WARBLER. 
Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) schwarzi, Radde, Reis. iSibir., Vog. p. 260, t. ix. f. a, b, c. 
Herbivocula flemingi, Sivinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 354; Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, 
p. 245. Phylloscopus brooksi, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 505, v. p. 134. Phyllo- 
pneuste brooksi, Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 105. Neornis flavolivacea, 
Hodgs. ? ajpud Hume, S. F. iii. p. 139 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 221. Phylloscopus 
schwarzi, Brooks, 8. F. iv. p. 277 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 84 ; Hume 8f Dav. 
S. F. vi. p. 353 ; Hwiie, S. F. viii. p. 102 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 186, Herbi- 
vocula incerta, Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 246. Oreopneuste af&nis, 
Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 267. Lusciniola schwarzi, Seebohm, Cat. Birds 
B. Mus. V. p. 128. 
Description. — Male and female in autumn and winter. Upper plumage 
olive-brown tinged with tawny, especially on the rump ; wings and tail 
brown^ edged on the outer webs with the colour of the back ; supercilium 
very distinct and reaching to the nape_, buff ,* lores and feathers behind the 
eye dark brown ; ear- coverts buff and brown ; lower plumage rich tawny 
buff, paling on the throat and abdomen ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
buff. In summer the lower parts are nearly white, merely tinged with 
yellow or buff, more especially so on the vent and under tail-coverts. 
Bill horn-colour_, the base fleshy white and the gape yellow ; iris brown ; 
legs and feet fleshy yellow^ claws fleshy brown. 
Length 5*6 inches^ tail 2*25^ wing 2'45, tarsus '9, bill from gape '65 : 
the second primary is equal to the eighth^ or intermediate between the 
seventh and eighth ; the first primary is very long^ measuring '85 inch in 
length. The female is rather smaller than the male. 
Radde^s Bush-Warbler has been met with frequently in Burmah in the 
winter. The bird which Mr. Hume (/. c.) identified doubtfully with 
Neornis flavolivacea, and which I shot in Northern Pegu near Tamagan, 
has been reexamined by Mr. Davison and myself, and we have both come 
to the conclusion that it is H. schwarzi. I procured another specimen at 
Kyeikpadein subsequently and these are the only two instances I know of 
the occurrence of this species in Pegu. Mr. Davison obtained it in the 
northern half of the Tenasserim Division at Pahpoon and other places_, and 
Capt. Bingham got it in the Thoungyeen valley. 
This Warbler winters in South China^ and passes the summer in Eastern 
Siberia. Mr. Swinhoe obtained it in Tientsin_, and Pere David at Pekin. 
The latter states that it is not rare in the hot season in Moupin and 
Setchuen. 
This species is generally found in bushes and dense low jungle. Mr, 
