800 SYLVIAD.E. 



This bird lays six eggs, white, spotted, and speckled all over, 

 almost hiding the ground colour, with dark purple red and ash 

 colour ; the eggs eight lines in length by six lines in breadth. 



The Wood Warbler is not uncommon in the metropolitan 

 counties, and visits also all those to the south and the west 

 as far as Devonshire ; but though Colonel Montagu includes 

 Cornwall also, I am unable to quote any recent authority for 

 its appearance in that county lately. It is found in Wales, 

 but has not been identified to a certainty as a visiter to Ire- 

 land. It is rare in Cambridgeshire, as observed by Mr. 

 Jenyns, but is found in Suffolk, Norfolk, Derbyshire, York- 

 shire, Durham, and Northumberland ; but I am not aware of 

 any record of its appearance in Scotland. M. Nilsson in- 

 cludes this species among the summer visiters to Sweden, but 

 considers it rare ; it is also rare in the more northern parts of 

 Europe generally ; but is common in Germany, Holland, 

 France, and Provence, quitting Genoa and Italy by the end 

 of September, and passing the winter, according to S. Savi, 

 in Egypt and Asia. 



The adult male has the beak blackish brown, but lighter in 

 colour along the edges of the mandibles ; the irides hazel ; a 

 streak of bright sulphur-yellow passes from the base of the 

 upper mandible, behind the nostril, over the eye, and over 

 the ear-coverts ; the upper part of the ear-coverts, the top of 

 the head, neck, smaller wing-coverts, back, and upper tail- 

 coverts, olive-green, tinged with sulphur-yellow ; smaller 

 wing-coverts slate-brown, edged with yellow; all the quill- 

 feathers slate-brown ; the primaries and secondaries with a 

 narrow outer edge of bright yellow, the tcrtials with a broader 

 edge of yellowish Avhite ; tail-feathers slate-brown, with the 

 outer edge yellow, the central pair rather shorter than the 

 others ; the chin, throat, breast, and flanks, delicate sulphur- 

 yellow ; belly, and under tail -coverts, clear white ; under 

 surface of wings and tail grey ; legs, toes, and claws, brown, 

 sometimes dark brown. 



