2. PHTLLOSCOPTJS. 57 



Pbvllopneuste trocliilus {Linn.~), Brehm, op. cit. p. 429 (1831) ; Up. 



Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 13 (1838) ; MacfiiU. Brit. B. ii. 



p. 371 (1839) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. i'89 (IBoO) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 



p. 33 (1850) ; Jauh. et Baiih.-Lapomm. Bick. Oni. p. 207 (1859) ; 



De</1. et Gerhe, Oni. Eur. i. p. 545 (1807) ; Luche, E.rpl. Sci. 



Al'f/er., Ois. i. p. 252 (18G7) ; Tridram, Ibis, 18C7, p. 82 ; Doderl. 



Avif. Sicil. p. 131 (1869) ; Frif»ch, Vog. Eur. pi. 19. lig. 8 (1871) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 34 (1871) ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 106 



(1871) ; Gunih), in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 101 (1872) ; Shelleij, 



B. E(jiipt, p. 103 (1872) ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. ii. pi. 65 (1873) ; 



Heugl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 298 (1869). 

 Sylvia melodia, Bh/th,' Bennies Field Xat. i. p. 425 (1833). 

 CuiTuca viridula, Jlempr. i^- Ehrenb. Si/mb. Phys. Aves,io\. bb (1833). 

 Sylvicola trochilus (Linn.), Ei/ton, Cut. Brit. B. p. 13 (1836). 

 Ficedula trochilus {Linn.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 185 (1840) ; 



Bi'ijip. Si/st. Uebers. p. 57 (1845) ; Sch/er/. Bijdr. Dierk. Amsterd. 



p. 28, pi. 12. fig. 7 (1848) ; Schley. Voy. Nederl. pi. 73 (1854) ; 



Linderm. Voy. Grieclienl. p. 98 (1860). 

 Sylvia icteiina, Vieill. apud Ecersjn. Add. ad Ball. Zooyr. Rosso-As. 



fasc. iii. p. 14 (1842). 

 Sylvia tamarixis, Crespon, Fauna Merid. i. p. 209 (1844), Jide 



Beyl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 548 (1849). 

 Sylvia angusticauda, Gerbe, Fauna de VAube, p. 139, Jide Deyl. Orn. 



Eur. i. p. 549 (1849). 

 Phyllopneuste eversmamii, Bp. Consp. i. p. 289 (1850). 

 Silvia nieisneri, Passler, Xaum. 1851, p. 50. 



Ph\ llopneuste septentrioiialis, C. L. Brehm, Voyelf. p. 232 (1855). 

 riiyllopueiiste graeili.s, C. L. Brehm, loc. cit. (1855). 

 I'livlliipiu-iiste major, Tristram, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1871, p. 29 {7iec 



For.ster). 

 I'bvUopneuste sibilatrix (Bechst.) apud Alston ^- Ilarvie Broivn, B)is 



1873, p. 61. 

 Pbylloscopus gaelkii, iSeebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 92. 

 Pliyllopseuste trocbilus (Linn.), Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 121 (1877). 



Sj^ring phtmarje. General colour of the upper parts olive-green, 

 somewhat yellower on the rump, each feather having an indistinct 

 pale tip, which forms four pale mesial lines on the crown, and gives 

 to the rest of the upper plumage a slightly mottled appearance ; a 

 somewhat indistinct 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 dark olive-green ; wing-coverts 

 olive, edged with olive-green : quills brown, narrowly tipped with 

 greyish white, the outside webs edged with yellowish green and 

 emarginated as far as the fifth ; 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 

 white, suffused all over with yellow, and on the brea.st and flanks with 

 buff ; axillaries. under wing-coverts, and thighs yellow : inner 

 margin of quills very pale huffish white. Bill (typically Phyllosco- 

 pine) narrow, depressed, and slender ; upper mandible dark brown, 

 under mandible very slightly paler. Legs, feet, and claws brown. 

 Third and fourth primaries longest ; second primary intermediate 

 in length between the fifth and sixth ; bastard primary somewhat 



