WARBLERS 361 



ICTERINE WARBLER. Hypolais icterina (Vieillot). 

 PI. 8, %. 9. Length, 5-25 in. ; bill, 0-6 in. ; wing, 

 3-1 in ; tarsus, 0*9 in. 



Hah. Central and Southern Europe; migrating to 

 North Africa in winter. 



One, Eythorne, near Dover, June 15, 1848 : Plomley, .^ooi., 

 1848, pp. 2228, 2346 ; Yarrell, " Hist. Brit. Birds." 



One, Dunsinea, co. Dublin, June 8, 1856 : Carte, Journ. 

 Roy. Duhl. Soc, 1858, p. 440 ; Blake Knox, Zool, 1870, 

 p. 2018. In the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 



One, Blakeney, Norfolk, Sept. 11, 1884: Power, Trans. 

 Norf. Nat. Soc, iv. p. 39. 



One, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, June 20, 1869 : C. M. Adam- 

 son ; see Saunders' " Manual," Appendix, p. 732. 



One, Easington, Holderness, May 28, 1891 : Cordeaux, 

 Zool, 1891, p. 308. In the Science and Art Museum, 

 Edinburgh. 



One, Wells, Norfolk, Sept. 4, 1893 : Gurney, Zool, 1894, 

 p. 89. 



One, Cley, Norfolk, Sept. 7, 1896: Gurney, Field, Sept. 

 1896, Zool, 1897, p. 132; Stevenson and Southwell, 

 " Bu-ds of Norfolk," vol. iiL p. 378. 



One, Lyme Regis, Dorset, May 1897: Mathew, Zool, 1897, 

 p. 332. 



Ohs. As to the supposed occurrence of the 

 Icterine Warbler in Wicklow and in Pembroke- 

 shire, see Zool, 1886, pp. 333, 334, 365, and 1897, 

 p. 420. Yarrell has pointed out that this species 

 is the true hy2Jolais of Continental authors, and 

 that the hypolais of most British writers is the 

 rufa of the Continent, the well-known Chiflf-chaff. 

 Yet the bird figured by him has the wings much 



