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S. rufa. — Second fliglit-featlier of same length as the eighth : 

 the third, fourth, and fifth forming the tip of wing. 



S. tristis. — Second ttight-feather of the same length as the 

 ninth ; the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth form the tip of the wing. 



S. fuscatiis. — Second flight-feather of the same length as the 

 tenth; the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth form the tip of the 

 wing. 



In addition to the Warblers here noted, I must mention another 

 which attracted my attention by its peculiar call-note, and which 

 I shot in my garden at the end of May 1875. It resembles a small 

 and very pale example of S. trochilus, and has its lower parts quite 

 white. In this bird the second flight-feather is shorter than the 

 sixth, and the tip of the wing is constituted by the third, fourth, 

 and fifth. Again, on the 9th July 1887, my attention was 

 attracted by the call-note of another Warbler, which sounded some- 

 thing like shiiup — shiilip — shiep. The bird on discovering that it 

 was being watched became exti'emely shy, and slipped off stealthily 

 through the thorn-bushes, its whereabouts being only discoverable 

 by its frequently rcjieated call-notes ; nevertheless, my son, after 

 the most persistent efforts, succeeded at last in shooting it. This 

 example also resembles a small S. trochilus, and the measurements 

 of its flight-feathers are similar to those of the example shot in May 

 1875. Seebohm, from the last-named, described the bird as a 

 separate species, under the name of Fhylloscopus gdtkei (Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 92). From a note of Dresser, however (vol. ii. p. 497), it appears 

 that he has cancelled this name, inasmuch as it had been 

 previously described by Tristram from examples obtained by him 

 on the coasts of the Mediterranean. 



109.— Yellow-browed Warbler [Gelbbrauigek Laubvogel]. 



SYLVIA SUPERCILIOSA, Gmelin.i 



Heligolandish : Striiked Fliegenbitter = Striped Warbler. 



Sylvia {Phyllopneuste) supcrciliosa. Naumann, xiii. ; Blasius, Nachtrdge, p. 74. 



Yellow-browed Warbler. Dresser, ii. 469. 



Boitelet modeste. Temminck, Manuel, iv. 618. 



This interesting little east Asiatic species was first described 

 by Latham in 1783 from a Russian example obtained through 

 Pennant. From that distant date, up to the autumn of 1836, hardly 

 anything more was heard of the bird. In the latter j'ear one found 

 its way into the bird-market of Vienna, and was kept alive for several 



' Phj/Uoscopun mperciliosus (Gmel.). 



