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ICTERINE WARBLER. 381 
HYPOLAIS HYPOLAIS*. 
ICTERINE WARBLER. 
(Puate 10.) 
Motacilla hypolais, Zinn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 330 (1766) ; et auctorum plurimorum— 
(Bechstein), (Wolf), (Temminck), (Naumann), (Eversmann), (Kaup), (Gould), 
(Nordmann), (Gray), (Werner), (Schlegel), (Blasius), (Heuglin), (Lindermayer), 
(Harting), (Gurney), (Shelley), (Keyserling), (Sundevall), &c. 
Sylvia hypolais (Zinn.), Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 173 (1802). 
Muscipeta hypolais (Linn.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 170 (1816). 
Sylvia icterina, Viel. N. Dict. d Hist. Nat. xi, p. 194 (1817). 
Hypolais hypolais (Linn.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 96 (1829), 
Hypolais salicaria (Linn.), apud Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. § N. Amer. p. 13 (1888). 
Ficedula hypolais (Linn.), Keys. u. Blas. Wirb. Ew’. pp. vi & 184 (1840). 
Hypolais icterina ( Veill.), Gerbe, Rev, Zool. 1844, p. 440. 
Ficedula ambigua (Schi.), apud Durazzo, Descr. di Genova, i. pt.2, pp. 170,177 (1846). 
Sylvia obscura, Snwth, Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Burds, pl. 112. fig. 1 (1849). 
Phyllopneuste hypolais (Linn.), Schl. Dier. Nederl. Vogels, p. 58 (1861). 
Salicaria italica, Salvad. Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor, iii. p. 268 (1868). 
It is somewhat extraordinary that a bird so common in the north of 
France, Belgium, Holland, and North Germany, and, from the peculiarity 
of its song and the unique character of its eggs, so impossible to escape 
detection as the Icterine Warbler, should only have twice been shot in the 
British Islands. But such appears to be the case. Both these examples 
were exhibited by Mr. Dresser at the meeting of the British Association at 
Brighton in 1872. The first was killed on the 15th of June 1848, at 
Eythorne near Dover, and passed into the coilection of Dr. Scott of Chud- 
leigh. The second was shot on the 8th of June 1856, by Mr. J. G. 
Rathborne, at Dunsinea, on the banks of the river Tolka, in the county of 
Dublin, and was by him presented to the Royal Dublin Society’s Museum. 
In both cases the peculiarity of the song was the cause of speciai attention 
having been directed to the birds; and the details published (of the one 
in the ‘ Journal of the Royal Dublin Society,’ i. p. 440, and of the other in 
the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1848, p. 2228) leave no room to doubt the genuineness 
of the occurrences. 
The range of the Icterme Warbler is a very peculiar one. It is a 
* According to the British-Association rules, the name to be adopted for the Icterine 
Warbler is Iduna hypolais; but as the genus Hypolais dates much earlier than that of 
Iduna, it has been generally retained; and there seems no reason why the name hypolais 
should not also be retained in a specific sense, since it has been used by a very large 
" majority of writers. 
