296 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Okavango and in Damara Land: it is migratory and amongst the 
earlier arrivals. It sings deliciously, and is found in small flocks 
hopping about industriously among the branches of the smaller 
trees, preferring such as have a thick tangled foliage, which it slowly 
examines for insects and larvee. 
Adult Male.—General colour above dull olivaceous rather greyer 
on the rump and upper tail-coverts: wings brown, the quills and 
coverts with lighter greyish edgings, apparently the remains of 
worn plumage: tail brown with paler edgings to the feathers: head 
clearer olivaceous and slightly more yellow than the back: lores and 
an indistinct superciliary line pale yellow: round the eye a ring of 
yellow feathers: ear-coverts olivaceous with narrow shaft-lines of 
yellowish white : cheeks and entire under surface of body pale yellow 
including the thighs and under tail-coverts : under wing-coverts and 
axillaries very pale yellow: inner lining of quills ashy brown, with 
whitish edgings along the inner web from the base upwards: “ upper 
mandible brownish, with yellowish tips and edges, the under mandible 
yellow tinged with flesh colour: ring round the eyes light yellow: 
gape melon-yellow: legs and toes slate-coloured: iris brown.” 
(Andersson). Total length, 5°4 inches; wing,3°0; tail,2°2; tarsus, 0°85. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Eur. part xxviii. 
280. PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS. European Willow Warbler. 
Sylvia trochilus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 102. 
The European ‘Willow Wren’ visits South Africa during its 
absence from Hurope and it seems to be very generally distributed. 
Mr. L. C. Layard shot several specimens along the banks of the 
Liesbeck River near Cape Town, and we have found it in the reeds 
bordering the Berg River and in the neighbouring vleys. We 
have also received it from Nel’s Poort near Beaufort and the late 
Mr. Andersson procured a specimen at the Knysna. Mr. T. C. 
Atmore found it not very uncommonly at Eland’s Post and in the 
vicinity of Grahamstown, while Mr. Ortlepp procured it during a 
journey near the Sunday’s River. Mr. T. Ayres has forwarded a 
single specimen from Natal to Mr. Gurney, and in Damara Land 
Mr. Andersson met with it, as well as in Ondonga. He writes :— 
“‘T have observed this species in the neighbourhood of the Okavango. 
It is rather lively in its habits, hopping incessantly among the 
fohage, and even suspending itself head downwards from the buds 
