]6 TURDID^E. 



Phylloscopus superciliosus, Newton, i. p. 443; Dresser, ii. 



p. 469. 



Reguloides superciliosus, Gould, ii. pi. 68; Harting, p. 107. 

 Dalmatian Regulus, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 316*. 



Superciliosus = with conspicuous eyebrows, supercllla. 



An accidental visitor to England and Europe. Breeds in 

 Northern Siberia, and winters in South China and Burma. 



Phylloscopus rufus. CHIFFCHAFF. 



Sylvia rufa, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 188 (1802). 



Sylvia rufa, Naum. iii. p. 581 ; Hewitson, p. 139 ; Gray, p. 50 ; 



Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 360. 

 Phyllopneuste hippolais, Macg. ii. p. 379. 

 Sylvia hippolais, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 335. 



Phylloscopus collybita, Newton, i. p. 437; Dresser, ii. p. 485. 

 Phyllopneuste rufa, Gould, ii. pi. 66; Harting, p. 18. 

 Chiff Chaff, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 307. 



Rufus = red. 



A common summer visitor to the British Islands and 

 North temperate Europe. Winters on the shores of the 

 Mediterranean. 



Phylloscopus trochilus. WILLOW- WAEBLER. 

 Motacilla Trochilus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 338 (1766). 



Sylvia trochilus, Naum. iii. p. 568; Hewitson, p. 137; Gray, 

 p. 51; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 329; id. ed. 3, i. p. 351. 



Phyllopneuste trochilus, Macg. ii. p. 371 ; Gould, ii. pi. 65 ; 

 Harting, p. 18. 



Phylloscopus trochilus, Newton, i. p. 432; Dresser, ii. p. 491. 



Willow Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 302. 



Trochilus = rpoxtXos, a small bird, the Nile Plover, said by Herodotus (2. 68) 

 to pick leeches, fideXXai, out of the crocodile's throat. From rpe^w I run. 



A common summer visitor to the British Islands, Arctic 

 and North temperate Europe, and Asia as far east as the 

 Yenisei. Winters in Persia and throughout Africa. 



