THE CHIFF-CHAFF. 



SYLVIA RUPA OF CONTINENTAL AUTHORS. 

 SYLVIA HIPPOLAIS OF BRITISH AUTHORS. 



Upper parts olive-green tinged with yellow ; cabove the eyes a narrow, faint, 

 yellowish white streak ; iinder parts yellowish white ; feathers of the leg dirty 

 white ; second primary equal to the seventh ; third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 with the outer web sloped off at the extremity ; under wing-coverts primrose- 

 yellow ; feet slender, dark brown. Length four inches and a half ; breadth 

 seven and a quarter. Eggs white, sparingly spotted with dark purple or black. 



Whatever question there may be whether the name of 

 Willow-warbler be appropriately applied to the last species, 

 there can be no doubt that the Chiff-chaff is well named. 

 Let any one be asked in the month of May to walk into a 

 wood and to hold up his hand when he heard a bird call 

 itself by its own name, "Chiff-chaff," he could not possibly 

 fall into an error. The bird is so common, that it would 

 be difficult to walk a mile in a woodland district without 

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