The Pallas's Warbler or Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) is a leaf warbler which breeds in southern Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Tibet and China. It is strongly migratory and winters in subtropical Asia.
This tiny warbler is prone to vagrancy as far as western Europe in late October and November, despite a 3000 km distance from its breeding grounds. For example, this species occurs in late autumn in Great Britain regularly enough that it is not classified as rare there.
- The closely related southern species, Pale-rumped Warbler (or Lemon-rumped Warbler), P. chloronotus, and Gansu Leaf Warbler, P. kansuensis, move to lower latitudes in winter, but do not migrate long distances.
- The Simla Warbler is the westernmost subspecies P. chloronotus simlaensis which may be anything between a distinct species and invalid due to clinal variation (Alström 2006 ).
- These three or four species and the Chinese Leaf-warbler, P. yunnanensis (sometimes P. sichuanensis) were until recently united in the Pallas' Warbler sensu lato.
Note that the sixth edition of Clements checklist  refers to Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, rather than this species, as "Pallas's Warbler".
This bird is named after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas.
This is one of the smallest warblers, and shares greenish upperparts and off-white underparts with typical leaf warblers. However, this is a little jewel of a bird, with prominent double wing bars, supercilia and crown stripe, and a lemon-yellow rump.
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