YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER — CHIFFCHAFF 69 



Genus PHYLLOSCOPUS, Boie. 

 YELLOW-BEOWED WAKBLEE. 



PhyUoscopus superciliosus (J. F. Gmelin). 

 8.N., l, p. 975 (1788). 



Several instances of the accidental visit to Great 

 Britain are recorded of the Yellow-Browed Warbler, and 

 only once to the county of Kent. Dr. A. G. Butler, the 

 well-known ornithologist, writing from Beckenham, Kent, 

 to the Zoologist, 1899, under A Stray Visitor to Kent, 

 says : " On Saturday morning (April 15), whilst eating 

 my breakfast opposite a window facing my garden, I 

 observed a tiny Warbler do me good service b}' cleaning 

 the aphides from a rose tree. The sun was shining and 

 the bird was only about 8 feet distant from me, so that 

 I could see it quite distinctly ; it was about the size of a 

 Goldcrest, but olive-green above, pale yellow beneath, 

 and with a well-defined eye stripe. If this was not 

 PhyUoscopus superciliosus I can give no name to it, 

 for it was far too small for a Chiffchaff or a Willow 

 Warbler, both of which I often see, either in the spring 

 or autumn, in my garden. I watched the bird carefully 

 for three or four minutes before it flew away." 



CHIFFCHAFF. 



PhyUoscopus riifiis (Bechstein). Orn. Taschenb., i., 

 p. 188 (1802). 



The Chiffchaff is one of the earliest of our summer 

 visitors to arrive in this county, and it may be heard 

 in all our beautiful woodlands in early spring, even before 

 the bushes have developed a leaf. There is a great 



