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Phylloscopus sibilatrix. WOOD-WARBLER. 



Motacilla sibilatrix, Bechstein, Naturforsch. xxvii. 



p. 47 (1793). 



Sylvia sibilatrix, Naum. iii. p. 556 ; Gray, p. 52. 

 Phyllopneuste sylvicola, Macg. ii. p. 364. 

 Sylvia sibillatrix, Hewitson, p. 135. 



Sylvia sylvicola, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 324 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 346. 

 Phylloscopus sibilatrix, Newton, i. p. 4.27; Dresser, ii. p. 497. 

 Phyllopneuste sibilatrix, Gould, ii. p. 67; Hartiny, p. 17. 

 Wood Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 297. 



Sibilatrix = that hisses or whistles, from slbtldre = to whistle. 



A summer migrant to Great Britain and North temperate 

 Europe. Winters in North Africa. 



Genus HYPOLAIS, C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1283. 



Hypolctis =vTro\a"is, a bird mentioned by Aristotle (Hist, An. vi. 7. 5) ; pro- 

 bably so called from its creeping under (VTTO) stones (Aaas). Linnasus wrote 

 hippolais by mistake (cf. Newton, L c. infra). 



Hypolais icterina. ICTERINE WARBLER. 

 Sylvia icterina, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 



p. 194 (1817). 



Sylvia hypolais, Naum. iii. p. 540. 

 Sylvia hippolais, Hewitson, p. 141 ; Gray, p. 52 ; Yarr. ed. 2, 



Suppl. p. 13 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 357. 



Hypolais icterina, Newton, i. p. 360 ; Dresser, ii. p. 521. 

 Ficedula hypolais, Gould, ii. pi. 71. 

 Phyllopneuste hypolais, Harting, p. 106. 



Icterina, adj. from iKrejOos = a bird of a yellowish-green colour, by looking at 

 which a jaundiced person was cured ; the bird died ! Pliny, N. H. 30. 11. Cf. 

 Galbula and Charadrius. 



This bird has twice occurred in the British Islands (Dover 

 and near Dublin) . Breeds in Central and Northern Europe, 

 extending northwards to the Arctic Circle, passing through 

 South Europe and North Africa on migration, and wintering 

 in South Africa. 



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