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Phyllopneuste sylvicola {Lath.), Brehm, op. cit. p. 426 (1831) ; 

 Macgill. Br. B. ii. p. 364 (1839) ; Boderl. Amf. Sicil. p. 132 

 (1869); Salvad. Faun. Ital. fee. p. 106 (1871) ; Shelley, B. Eijypt, 

 p. 101 (1872). 



Sylvicola sibilatrix (Bechst.), Eyton, Cat. Brit. B. p. 14 (1836). 



Pliylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechst.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mns. As. Soc. p. 184 

 (1849) ; Schley. Nederl. Voy. pi. 7. lig. 6 (1861) ; Neicton,ed. Yarr. 

 Br. B. i. p. 427 (1873) ; Irby, B. Gihr. p. 88 (1876) ; Danfm-d ^ 

 Ilarcie Brown, Ibis, 1875, p. 308 ; Blunf. East. Pers. ii. p. 183 

 (1876) ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xlviii. (1876); Seehohm, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 88. 



Ph\llupseuste sibilatrix (Bechst.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 33 (1850) ; 

 ileuyl. Orn. X.O.-Afr. i. p. 298 (1869). 



Spring plumage. General colour of the upper parts yeUowish 

 green, yellowest on the rump and upj)er tail- coverts; a distinct 

 greenish-yellow eye-stripe extends from the base of the bill as far 

 as the crown ; the feathers before the eye and behind the eye as 

 far as the crown olive-green ; wing-coverts olive-green with paler 

 edges ; quills brown, narrowly tipped with greyish white, the out- 

 side webs edged with yellowish green, and cmarginated as far as 

 the fourth primary ; the margins to the innermost secondaries are 

 broader and paler ; tail-feathers brown, the outside webs edged 

 with yellowish green, and the inside webs with a narrow greyish- 

 white margin. General colour of the underparts pure white, suf- 

 fused with yellow on the chin, throat, and fore neck, occasionallj' 

 'with a trace of yellow on the flanks and the basal part of the under 

 tail-feathers ; axillaries, under wing-covcrts, and thighs yellow ; 

 inner margin of quiUs nearly white. Eill rather Acrocephaliue for a 

 typical Phylloscojjus, dark brown ; under mandible paler at the 

 base. Legs, feet, and claws brown. Third primary longest ; second 

 sometimes longer, sometimes shorter than the fourth, alwaj's much 

 longer than the fifth ; bastard pjrimary very small, the exposed part 

 measuring 0-3 to 0-4 inch. Length of wing, male 3-1 to 2-'6 inches, 

 female 3-0 to 2-9 ; length of tail, male 2'2o to 2-Q, female 1-95 to 

 1-85 ; length of culmen 0-48 to 0-53. 



Summtr plumage. Owing probably to the retiring habits of this 

 species and the more limited range of its migration, and possibly to 

 the firmer texture of its feathers, its plumage scarcely sutlers at all 

 from abrasion. 



Autumn and tvinter plumage. Scarcely distinguishable from those 

 of spring and sunmier. 



The ^^'ood-'\Vavblcr, or Yellow "NVillow-Warbler, breeds in Central 

 Europe, as far north as Inverness in Scotland, Upsala in Sweden, 

 St. Petersburg in Eussia, and Bogosloft'sk in the Ural. Its southern 

 breeding-range is bounded to the west by Gibraltar, and eastwards 

 as far south as Transylvania. It passes through Greece, Asia 

 Minor, and Palestine on migration, and wiiitei-s in Xorth Africa, 

 having been found to the west as far south as the Gold Coast, and 

 to the east as far south as Abyssinia. The most easterly locality 

 recorded of this bird is Lankoran, on the south-western shore of the 

 Caspian. 



