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been obtained on Heligoland, and occurs regularly in small numbers in autumn on Fair Island, 

 and occasionally in other parts of Scotland. [F. c. R. J.] 



SCANDINAVIAN-CHIFFCHAFF [Phylloscopus collijbita abietinus (Nilsson)]. 



1. Description. Resembles the common-chiffchaff, but is slightly larger and a little paler 

 in coloration, the wing measuring 58 mm. against 55 of the common-chiffchaff. [w. p. p. 

 and T. w.J 



2. Distribution. The breeding limits of this race are imperfectly known at present, but it 

 apparently breeds in Scandinavia, probably over a considerable part of Eastern Germany, Austro- 

 Hungary, Bosnia and Montenegro, and Russia south to the Caucasus and north to about lat. 65. 

 Its chief winter quarters lie in South-eastern Europe, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, and North- 

 east Africa, but it seems to occur occasionally in West Europe, and has once been recorded 

 from the Isle of Wight (April 1907) and regularly from Fair Island on both passages. [F. c. E. j.] 



EVERSMANN'S WARBLER [Phylloscopus borealis (Blasius). German, nordiscker 

 Laubsdnger]. 



1. Description. -Differs from the above-mentioned species in having two wing-bars. 

 Length 4J in. [112 mm.]. General colour of the upper parts dull olive-green, a well-defined 

 eyebrow of yellowish white extending to the back of the head ; median and greater wing- 

 coverts tipped with greyish white, forming two wing-bars wings and tail ash-brown, narrowly 

 margined with olive-green ; under surface of the body white, suffused with pale yellow, darkest 

 on the breast and sides of the body; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale yellow ; the third 

 and fourth primary are longest, second primary intermediate in length between the fifth and 

 sixth, [w. P. P. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. This species is confined in Europe during the breeding season to a small 

 district of Norway (Finmark) and Northern Russia, including the Kola Peninsula, the Archangel 

 government, the Petschora valley, and the northern part of the Perm government. In Asia 

 it ranges through Siberia east to Kamtschatka, Corea, and Ussuria. It migrates through Japan 

 and China, wintering in the Malay Peninsula and part of the Malay Archipelago as far as 

 Flores, Sumba, and the S. Moluccas. Has occurred twice in Scotland (Sule Skerry, Orkneys, 

 September 1902, and Fair Island, September 1908). [F. c. R. J.] 



[AMERICAN RUBYCROWNED-KINGLET [Regulus calendula (Linnaeus)]. Two are said to have 

 been shot in Scotland, but the records are not sufficiently authenticated for insertion in the 

 British list. [F. c. R. J.] ] 



RUFOUS -WARBLER [Agrobdtes galactotes galactotes (Temminck) ; Aedon galactodes (Tem- 

 ininck). German, rostfarbiger Sanger ; Italian, rusignolo d' Africa]. 



1. Description. Recognised by the chesnut-coloured tail, barred at the tip with 

 white and black. The sexes are alike in size and coloration. Length 6J in. [165 mm.]. 

 General colour of the upper surface of the body rich sandy buff, a well-defined white eyebrow 

 reaching from the nostrils to the hinder part of the crown ; lores blackish brown ; primaries 

 and secondaries ash-brown, margined on the outer web with greyish buff; tail feathers rich 

 chesnut, broadly barred at the tip with white and submarginally with black ; under surface of 

 the body bumsh white, darkest on the chest and sides of the body ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts brownish buff; legs, feet, and claws horn colour, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. The western race of this species breeds in North Africa from Marocco 

 to Egypt, and also in Palestine and the Iberian Peninsula, but chiefly in the south and east of 

 the latter. It is migratory and visits the Sahara, but its winter quarters are not known, though 



