430 BRITISH BIRDS. 
PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS. 
WILLOW-WREN. 
(Prats 10.) 
Ficedula asilus, Briss. Orn. iii. p, 479 (1760). 
Motacilla trochilus, Zinn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 358 (1766) ; et auctorum plurimorum— 
(Temminck), (Naumann), (Gould), (Bonaparte), (Degland § Gerbe), (Loche), 
(Gray), (Newton), (Sharpe), (Dresser), Se. 
Sylvia trochilus (Linn.), Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 160 (1769). 
Motacilla fitis, Bechst. Natwrg. Deutschl. iv. p. 678 (1795). 
Sylvia fitis (Bechst.), Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 187 (1802). 
Ficedula fitis ( Bechst.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool, i. p. 159 (1816). 
Sylvia flaviventris, Viel. N. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. xi. p. 241 (1817). 
Trochilus medius, Forst. Syn. Cat. p. 54 (1817). 
Phylloscopus trochilus (Zinn.), Bote, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 
Regulus trochilus (Linn.), Fleming, Brit. An. p. 72 (1828). 
Phyllopneuste arborea, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 427 (1851). 
Phyllopneuste fitis (Bechst.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 427 (1851). 
Phyllopneuste trochilus (Linn.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 429 (1831). 
Sylvia melodia, Blyth, Rennie’s Field Nat. i. p. 425 (1833). 
Curruea viridula, Zempr. § Ehrenb. Symb. Phys., Aves, fol. bb (1853). 
Sylvicola trochilus (Linn.), Eyton, Cat. Brit. B. p. 13 (1836). 
Ficedula trochilus (Linn.), Keys. u. Blas. Wirb, Eur, p. 185 (1840). 
Sylvia tamarixis, Crespon, Fauna Merid. i. p. 209 (1844). 
Sylvia angusticauda, Gerbe, Faun. de (Aube, p. 189, fide Degl. Orn. Ew. i. p. 549 
(1849). 
Phyllopneuste eversmanni, Bonrap. Consp. i. p. 289 (1850). 
Silvia meisneri, Péissler, Nawm, 1851, p. 56. 
Phyllopneuste major, Z'ristram, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1871, viii. p. 29 (nee Forster). 
Phylloscopus gaetkii, Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 92. 
Phyllopseuste trochilus (Linn.), Gebel, T'hes. Orn. iii. p. 121 (1877). 
Of all the Willow- Warblers the common Willow-Wren, as it is generally 
called, is the most abundant and the most widely distributed. The exqui- 
site delicacy of its plumage, the slender gracefulness of its form, its active 
Tit-like habits, its pretty little song, and, above all, its carefully concealed 
domed nest and beautiful pink eggs make it a general favourite. There 
is scarcely a plantation, or garden, or copse in Great Britain or Ireland 
where the Willow-Wren is not a common bird in the breeding-season. 
On the continent it is equally common. I found it abundant on the fjelds 
of Lapland both in the Porsanger and Varanger fjords ; and on the tundras 
of the Petchora and Yenesay, up to lat. 70°, wherever the valleys were shel- 
tered enough to allow of the growth of willow copses. It breeds through- 
out Central and Western Europe, a few even remaining during summer in 
North-west Africa; but towards the east its breeding range does not 
extend so far south. ‘There is no evidence of its breeding in South Russia ; 
