SMIT HAW & VOOUS KH (1959) Fourth specimen of Phylloscopus inornatus, collected in the Netherlands. LIMOSA 32 (4): 191-192.

The presence of a specimen of Phylloscopus inornatus, found dead on the light~ ship Texel after the night of 27-28 november 1958, is recorded. It is now skin nr. 14101 in the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam .and the fourth Dutch museum specimen of this species: i!!, wing 55 mm, tail 405 mm; weight ca. 4 gram (weak). Wing~formula: 2 = 8. The specimen is conspicuous by its pale olive~green upper parts and pale greyish~buff superciliary lines. In its paleness it is not matched by three Dutch and three Siberian specimens of the race .inornatus examined, nor by seven Siberian specimens kindly compared by Prof. JOHANSEN (Copenhagen). As it neither shows the characters of the race humei, it is provisionally considered an extremely pale individual variant of the race inornatus. The specimen Clpproaches most closely a skin from Japan (Nippon~Hondo, ap~ parently collected in May) from the former Natural History Institute Linnaea in Berlin, at present in the State Museum of Natural History at Leiden. This specimen probably is the first one on record of this species in Japan, as the species is lacking in the latest (fourth Rnd revised) edition of A Handlist of the Japanese Birds (Tokyo, 1958). However, Prof. Dr. E. STRESEMANN (in litt.) informed us that the labels on specimens from the institute Linnaea do not always contain trustworthy data

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