92 
Mr. H. Seebohm on the Phylloscopi 
feathers, on or near the ground, and lays white eggs, spotted 
with pale red. 
In extreme summer plumage in high latitudes every trace 
of yellow and green disappears, except a faint dash on the 
axillaries, wing-lining, and thighs; but birds in this plumage 
are very rare, and all the specimens of it I have seen were ob¬ 
tained within the arctic circle. In autumn birds of the year 
have the whole underparts deep huffish yellow. 
21. Phylloscopus gaetkei, sp. nov. 
Phyllopneuste major , Tristram, Ann. Nat. Hist. p. 29 
(1871, nec Forster). 
Bill slender, under mandible darkish. 
Upper parts greyish brown. Wings and tail greyish brown. 
Superciliary streak dirty white. 
Head the same colour as the back. 
Underparts white, slightly tinged with huffish yellow on the 
breast and flanks. 
Third or fourth primary longest and nearly equal. Fifth 
rather shorter. Sixth considerably shorter than the 
preceding. Second primary intermediate in length be¬ 
tween the sixth and seventh. 
Bastard primary medium, the exposed part measuring—male 
*5, female *4. 
No wing-bar. 
Length of wing—male 2*53, female 2*5. 
Length of tail—male 2T, female 2*05. 
Legs and claws brown. 
In the f Annals of Nat. Hist/ for July 1871, Tristram de¬ 
scribes a Phylloscopus from the south Mediterranean coast 
under the name of Phyllopneuste major. It is nearest allied 
to P. trochilus , but differs from that species in having a shorter 
second primary, which is intermediate in length between the 
sixth and seventh, instead of between the fifth and sixth. This 
seems a very slight difference upon which to establish a species. 
In the very nearly allied P. collyhita the second primary seems 
to be indifferently intermediate between the sixth and seventh 
or the seventh and eighth. Tristram appears to have felt the 
injustice of dividing one species on this ground without serv¬ 
ing the other in the same way. In order to be impartial he 
