or Willow -Warblers. 
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Head the same colour as the back. 
Underparts, axillaries, and wing-lining pale lemon-yellow . 
Third and fourth primaries longest. Fifth a shade shorter. 
Sixth and seventh each considerably shorter than the 
preceding. Second primary equal to the seventh, some¬ 
times a little longer. 
Bastard primary rather small, the exposed part measuring 
•5 to -6. 
First wing-bar distinct, upper bar wanting. 
Length of wing—male 2‘65 to 2*5, female 2’5 to 2*35. 
Length of tail—male 2 # 05 to 1*95, female 1*9 to 1*8. 
Legs and claws brown. 
So far as is known, this species has a very restricted range, 
probably breeding in the North-western Himalayas, and win¬ 
tering in Bengal, Southern India, and Ceylon. Hume met 
with it in the Punjaub (Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 197), and 
Mr. B. M. Adam near the Sambhur lake (ibid. p. 382). Blyth 
says (J. A. S. Beng. 1854, p. 483) that it is generally distri¬ 
buted but rare in Lower Bengal. I have skins obtained on 
migration by Mr. Brooks at Etawah. Jerdon mentions it as 
frequent in winter in Southern India, but rare near Calcutta 
(Birds of Ind. ii. p. 193). Ceylon is one of its favourite winter- 
quarters ( Legge , Ibis, 1874, p. 22), and there are several skins 
of this species from that island in Lord Tweeddale's collection. 
Strange to say, a solitary bird of this species fell to the gun of 
Mr. Gaetke's son Ludwig, in Heligoland. Mr. Gaetke^s obser¬ 
vations seem satisfactorily to prove that birds of the year 
migrate earlier than their parents. It is scarcely to be 
wondered at that, on their first journey, they should some¬ 
times stray far out of the usual track. It will doubtless be 
found that most of the accidental visits of birds to unusual 
localities are those of birds of the year on their first autumnal 
migration. 
The nest and eggs of this bird are unknown. 
4. Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth. 
Phyllopneuste rufa , Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 191 (1842, 
nec Bodd.). 
Phylloscopus viridanus , Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 967 
(1843). 
