3. HYPOLAIS. 77 



inches, culmen 071 to 0-6o. Bill less 



laterally depressed than in allied subspecies opacu, p. 83. 



c". Second primary o^enerally intermediate be- 

 tween the seventh and eighth or eighth and 

 ninth ; bastard primary exceeding- the pri- 

 mary-coverts from 0-2 to 0-4. Length of 

 wing 2-53 to 2-3 inches, culmen 0-6 to 0o3. rmna, p. 84. 



d". Second primary generally intermediate be- 

 tween the sixth and seventh ; bastai-d pri- 

 mary exceeding the primary-coverts 0-15 to 

 0-26. Length of wing 2-38 to 2-23 inches, 

 culmen O-ol to Oo caligata, p. 85. 



1. Hypolais icterina. 



Motacilla hypolais, Linn* Si/st. Nat. i. p. 330 (1776). 



Sylvia hypolais (Linn.), Bechd.* Oni. Taschenb. p. 173 (1802); 



Wulf, Tuichenb. i. p. 24(J (1810); Temin. Man. d'Oni. p. 122 



(1815); id. Man. (/'0,-«. i. p. 222 (1820) ; Nanm. Vog. Dmtschl. 



iii. p. 540 (1823); Eoersm. Add. Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Adat. fasc. i. 



p. 24 (1835); Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 133 (1837); Nordm. Deniid. 



Vog. Russ. merid. iii. p. 141 (1840) ; IFerner, Atlas, Imectiv. 



pi. 53 (1842) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 174 (1848) ; Sundeo. Sv. Fugl. 



p. 68 (18j8j ; Gray, Haml-l. B. i. p. 215. no. 3042 (1869). 

 Muscipeta hypolais [Linn.), Koch *, Syd. baier. Zuol. i. p. 170 (1816). 

 Sylvia ictevin.i, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Mid. Nat. xi. p. 194 (1817) : id 



Faune Franq. i. p. 211 (1820). 

 Hypolais alticeps, 1 



Hypolais media, I Brehm *, Isis, 1828, p. 1283. 

 Hypolais planiceps, ) 



Hypolais hypolais (Linn.), Kaup, Natiirl. Sgst. p. 96 (1829). 

 Hypolais salicaria {Linn.}, apud Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. ^ N. Amer. 



p. 13 (1838), apud Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rick. Orn. p. 262 



(1850), apud Lovhe, E.rpl. Sci. Alger., Ois. i. p. 273 (1867), apud 



Ueiigl. Orn. NO.-Afr. i. p. 29) (1869), apud Fritsch, Vdg. Eur. 



p. 161 (18/0), apnd iSharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 33 (1871). 

 Ficedula hypolais {Linn.), Kegs. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. Ivi & 184 



(1840); 6c7i/. Rev. Crit. p. xxvi (1844); Ileugl. ^yst. Uebers. 



p. 23(1856); Linderm. Vog. Griec/ienl. ^. 9/ (IS^O); Newt. List 



B. Eur. BUmus, p. 11 (1862) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 130 (18o9) ; 



Droite, Vugelw. Burkuin, p. 100 (1869) ; ' Gotdd, B. Gt. Br. ii. 



pi. Ixxi. vl87o). 

 Hypolais polyglotta {Vieill), Selgs-Longch. Faun. Belg. p. 99 



(1842). 

 Hypolais icterina {Vieill), Gerbe, Rev. Zool 1844, p. 440; Degl. et 



Gerhe, Orn. Eur. p. 498 (1867) ; .'ialvad. Faun. Ital Ucc. p. io9 



(1871) ; Neiuton, ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 360 (1873) ; Dresser, B. 



Eur. pt. xxviii (1874). 

 Ficedula ambigua {Svkl.), Durazzu, Descr. di Genova, i. pt. 2. 



pp. 170, 177 (1846). ^ 



Sylvia obscura, Hinith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Birds, pi. 112. fig. 1 (1849). 

 Phyllopneuste hypolais {Linn.), Schl. Dier. Nederl Vogels, p. 68 



* These writers spell the word erroneously hippolais, under a mistaken idea 

 of its derivation. 



