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opposite Kjachta, late in August, 1880, and Pallas’s original 
specimen came from the Ingoda River in Transbaikal. JJr. Dybowski 
records it from the mineral springs of Darasun ; and Dr. Eadde 
observed it on the Tarei-nor near the frontier station Kulus- 
sutajefskoje, but confused it with P. mpercilumis. Not far from 
here is the frontier station Tsuruchaitui, where Dr. Dybowski met 
with it. We must also refer to the records of von Middendorff from 
the Stanowoi Mountains and from the Ussuri country. As, however, 
von Middendorff mixed up the two Siberian Willow Warblers, 
I must refer only to his two undoubted specimens of P. proreipilus. 
These came from the Stanowoi Mountains — one from the Ssalurnai 
River, and the other from Markul. With regard to the occurrence 
of this bird in the Southern Ussuri country, Mr. Maximowicz 
obtained the most northerly recorded specimen at Stanitza Busse. 
Prjevalski records it as tolerably common in the vicinity of Lake 
Chanka, though it is not included in his account of his journey, 
because he mistook the only specimen he brought back for 
mperciliosus. Dorries sent specimens to Europe from the station 
of Baranowskij, in the Ssuifun Valley ; and Mr. Poljakoff from 
the mouth of the Retschnoje River. Finally, the brothers Dorries 
and Mr. Jankovski record this species from the Island of Askold. 
Pallas’s Willow Warbler breeds also in the Himalayas at con- 
siderable altitudes ; and Captain Cock took several nests with eggs 
at Sonamorg in Kashmir ; Colonel Biddulpli records it from Gilgit 
in January; and, according to Mr. Oates (Birds Brit. Ind. vol. i. 
p. 408), “it is distributed throughout the Himalayas from Hazara 
and Kashmir to Bhutan, and also occurs probably only as a winter 
visitor in the Khasi and Naga Hills, in Manipur, and in the 
Salween district of Tenasserim among the pine-forests. It 
occasionally descends to such low levels as the Dehra Doon.” 
According to Abbe David (Ois. Chine, p. '21 o) it frequently 
passes the winter in Central and Southern China ; and Mr. Styan 
(‘Ibis,’ 1891, p. 339), in his article on the birds of the Lower 
Yangtse Basin, says that it “ begins to arrive early in March, and 
soon after its sweet and powerful song is heard throughout the day 
from the tops of the Bamboos and Firs ; its call-note is a loud 
Canary-like hiceet. Most of them pass on by the middle of April ; 
in October they re-appear, and I have obtained one at Kiukiang 
as late as December.” 
