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PHyLLoscoPus NecLectus (Hume). 
In ‘ The Ibis’ for 1869, p. 236, Mr. W. E. Brooks writes:— 
“7 have, however, a single specimen, a female, of a Phyllo- 
scopus which I cannot make out. This bird exactly resembles 
in size and colour P. brevirostris’’ (tristis), “ but is entirely 
without any yellow under the wings, nor is there any tinge of 
greenish yellow on the edges of the lesser wing-coverts. This 
bird Mr. Hume pronounced to be the English Chiffchaff (P. 
rufus), because it was white under the wings instead of yel- 
low.” To this Mr. Allen Hume replies in ‘ The Ibis’ for 
1870, page 143, “there has been some mistake between 
Mr. Brooks and myself about the Phylloscopus with a white 
wing-lining. The bird he refers to is the species I call Phyl- 
loscopus neglectus,’ &c. If this species be a good one, which 
there seems to be some reason to doubt, we have much plea- 
sure in being able to add it to the European fauna. On 8rd 
June Seebohm shot a male Phylloscopus which agrees with 
Mr. Hume’s description. It differs from P. tristis in having 
white instead of yellow. axillaries, in having the edges of the 
primaries without any tinge of yellow, in having a decidedly 
shorter tail, and a slightly smaller bastard primary. It was 
frequenting some tall willows in a pine-forest at Habariki. 
We may also remark that some of the small Phylloscopi which 
we observed in the same neighbourhood, appeared to have 
a richer and more varied song than those we heard at Ust 
Zylma, and may have been this species. 
CALAMODYTA PHRAGMITIS (Bechst.). 
Next to the Willow-Wren the Sedge-Warbler is certainly 
the commonest songster on the willow-swamps of the islands 
of the delta. Curiously enough, we did not meet with this 
bird either at Ust Zylma or at Habariki. We first met with 
it on the Yorsa river. As the Bluethroat became rarer the 
Sedge-Warbler became commoner. We did not find it north 
of the delta; nor did it appear to frequent the willow-swamps 
which we frequently met with on the tundra. 
PARUS KAMCHATKENSIS, Bp. 
We met with this eastern representative of the Northern 

