70 
Mr. H. Seebohm on the Phylloscopi 
Sylvia flavescens, G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. I860, p. 349. 
Phylloscopus hylebata } Swinh. J. A. S. Beng. xxiy. p. 265 
(1861). 
Phyllopneuste kennicotti , Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sc. i. 
p. 313 (1869). 
Obs. Phyllopneuste javanica (Horsfield), mentioned by Bla- 
sins (Ibis, 1862, p. 66) as this species, or one very closely 
connected with it, is pronounced by Sclater and Finsch (Ibis, 
1873, p. 475) to be a Zosterops . 
Bill large , under mandible pale. 
Upper parts greyish brown, dashed all over, especially on the 
rump, with yellowish green. Wings and tail greyish 
brown, with the outside edges of each feather broadly 
margined with yellowish green. Superciliary streak ex¬ 
tending to the nape. 
Head the same colour as the back. 
Underparts nearly white, slightly dashed with yellow and grey 
on the breast and flanks. Axillaries, wing-lining, and 
thighs pale yellow. After the autumn moult the whole 
of the underparts are pale yellow, dashed with grey on 
the breast and flanks. 
Third and fourth primaries longest. Fifth considerably 
shorter. Sixth very considerably shorter still. Second 
intermediate in length between the fifth and sixth. 
The bastard primary very small. The exposed part mea¬ 
sures *3 to *35 in adults, and *4 to *45 in birds of the 
year. 
First wing-bar distinct. Sometimes traces of second wing- 
bar in birds of the year. 
Length of wing—male 2’70 to 2*55, female 2*55 to 2*40. 
Length of tail—male 2*00 to U90, female U90 to 1*80. 
Legs and claws brown. 
This species breeds in the north of the palsearctic region, 
at or near the limit of forest-growth, and in a similar climate 
in the subalpine districts of Southern Siberia. It passes 
through China on migration, and winters in the East-India 
islands^and the islands surrounding the Burmah peninsula. 
It unites aiPextreme south-eastern winter-range with a wider 
northern range than that of any other species of the genus. 
Collett has recently obtained it in Finmark; and it is not un¬ 
common in summer at Archangel (Alston and Harvie Brown, 
