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and materials as that of the last, feathers in 

 addition being always used for the lining. The 

 eggs are smaller, but are very similar in colour 

 and shape. 



Its extra European range yet recorded, is 

 Trebizond, * and the western parts of Europe.f 



Upper parts pale oil green ; a rather indistinct 

 streak extends above each eye, and surrounds 

 the orbits ; quills and tail are hair brown, edges 

 of the feathers yellowish white ; the margins of 

 the lesser wing coverts, and edges of the quills, 

 pale yellow ; the under parts yellowish-white, 

 clearest on the centre of the belly and throat, and 

 across the breast, and on the flanks, sulphur 

 yellow; the legs are yellowish brown. Length 

 about four inches and three-fourths. Female 

 slightly less, a little more tinged with brown 

 above, and having the yellow of the under parts 

 less clear. 



THE CHIFF-CHAFF WARBLER, SYLVIA HIPPO- 

 LAIS, Selby. Chiff-Chaff, Least Willow Wren, 

 Lesser Petty chaps of British authors. This little 

 Warbler, arriving in its summer station con- 

 siderably earlier than any of the preceding, is at 

 once betrayed by the peculiar call note whence 

 its provincial name has been derived, and which 

 is so plainly uttered as never to be mistaken if it 

 has once been heard. It is by no means, how- 

 ever, a very common species, and northward it 

 * Mr Strickland. t Mr Gould. 



