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 innermost secondaries being tipped with white. The posterior edge of the primaries is brownish white. The under parts generally are whitish, but the throat is of a more whitish grey colour tinged with yellow, which colour continues down the breast, where it forms indistinct longitudinal stripes. The abdomen is white, the flanks tinged with greenish yellow, and the under tail-coverts whitish grey washed with light yellowish green. The under side of the tail and wing is greyish lavender, the flight-feathers being edged with white. Axillaries are sulphur yellow and the edge of the wing chrome yellow. The bill is horn black, the lower mandible being buff colour at the base, and the iris dark brown. Feet are flesh brown with yellowish green soles.

There are only two records of the occurrence of this Warbler in Europe, one being obtained on the coast of Norfolk, and the other on the Island of Heligoland.

In Eastern Siberia it is by no means rare, occurring in the Province of Yeniseisk, on the Eiver Lena, near Lake Baikal, in the vicinity of Irkutsk, and on the left bank of the River Selenga. It is also found to the south of the River Ussuri, on the borders of Lake Khanka, and in the neighbourhood of Baranovsk. Large numbers pass through Pekin on migration. Throughout the Himalaya Mountains it appears to be not uncommon, and in winter visits the hills in Manipur and Tenasserim.