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113. Chiff Chaff, Phylloscopus collybita (Vieill.). 



Geographical Races. 



a. Western Chiff Chaff, P. collyhita collybita (Tieill.). 



Plate 28, fig. 6—10 (Germany). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Tab. XIX, fig. 10, a — c. Hewitson, 

 I Ed. I, pi. CXVIII, fig. 1; II Ed. I, pi. XXVIII, fig. 2; III Ed. I, 

 pi. XXXVI, fig. 4. Baedeker, Tab. 19, fig. 8, 9. Taczanowski, Tab. 

 XLVII, fig. 3. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 10; Col. Fig. pi. 53. Frohawk, 

 Br. Birds, I, pi. II, fig. 49 — 51. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 15, 16. Howard, 

 Br. Warblers, pi. II, fig. 19—24. Nest: Lodge, Pictures of Bird Life, p. 366. 



British Local Names: Chip-chop, Choice and Cheap, Featherpoke. 

 Welsh: Siff snff. Foreign Names: France: Bee-fin veloce. Germany: 

 Zilpzalp, Weiden - Laubvogel. Helgoland: Liitjswart-futted Fliegenhitter. 

 Holland: Tjif-tjaf. Italy: Lui piccolo. Portugal: Folosa. Spain: Almen- 

 drita, Mosquilla. 



Plajlloscopns collybita (Vieill.). Newton, ed. Yarrell, 1, p. 437. Dresser, 

 B. of Europe, II, p. 485 and Man. Pal. Birds, p. 97. P. rufus (Bechst.). 

 Saunders, Man. p. 67. P. collybita collybita (Vieill.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. 

 Fauna, p. 501. 



Breeding Range: The British Isles, except N. Scotland: Con- 

 tinental Europe, from mid Germany and Italy westward, Sicily and 

 Sardinia. [Possibly also in N. Algeria.] 



In England the Chiffchaff is a tolerably common summer visitor uritish 

 in wooded districts, although its numbers vary from year to year. It is ^'^*^- 

 plentiful in the Devonian peninsula, and common in the Midlands, but 

 is scarce in E. Anglia and prefers low lying and well wooded districts, 

 so that it is practically absent from the Pennine chain and its outlying 

 spurs, as well as from many of the uplands and mountains of Wales. 

 It breeds in Anglesey and in the Isle of Man. In Scotland it is scarce, 

 but has bred in the Forth and Clyde districts and occurs annually in 

 fair numbers on the E. side, south of the Firth of Forth, and on the W. 

 side, S. of Dumbarton. Northward of these districts it appears to be 

 only an occasional straggler. In Ireland it is locally very common and 

 breeds in all woodlands. 



In France it is generally distributed in fair numbers in wooded con- 

 districts and also in the Low Countries. In Germany the limits of ^^rrpe- 

 this and the next race are as yet undetermined, but it is probably 

 found throughout Germany except in the eastern provinces. In the 

 S. of France it is resident throughout the year, as is also the case 

 in the Iberian peninsula. In the E. Pyrenees it is found in summer 



