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Young. Like the adults, but greener, and the yellow of the 

 throat more diffused and extending over the fore-neck and 

 upper breast. 



Winter Plumage Does not differ appreciably from the summer 

 plumage. 



NOTE. The Wood-Warbler is the largest of the three species which 

 breed in Great Britain, and is brighter in colour than the Willow- Warbler 

 or the Chiffchaff, neither of which have such a clear yellow eyebrow or 

 throat, the latter contrasting markedly with the white breast and abdomen. 

 The first, or bastard, primary is shorter than the primary-coverts, and 

 measures only 0*3 to 0*4 inch. The second primary is always longer 

 than the fifth. 



Range in Great Britain. A summer visitor to most parts of 

 England and Wales, and also found over the greater part of 

 Scotland, having been seen in Caithness and in the Outer 

 Hebrides, on North Uist. The most northerly breeding place 

 yet recorded in our islands is the south-east of Sutherlandshire, 

 where it is said to nest by Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown. 

 In Ireland it is only known as a rare visitor, but doubtless 

 breeds in certain parts of the country. 



Range outside the British Islands. Found over the greater part 

 of Europe in summer, but, to a certain extent, local in its dis- 

 tribution. Thus it has never been found in Norway, but 

 occurs in Sweden up to the vicinity of Upsala, is common in 

 the Baltic Provinces, and extends to Finland, and even to the 

 neighbourhood of Archangel. Its eastern limit . in Russia 

 appears to be the district of Kazan, but further south it has 

 been found in Lenkoran. In Turkey it also breeds, but is 

 only a migrant in Greece, Asia Minor, and Palestine. In 

 Italy it nests on the mountains of the northern and central 

 provinces, but is principally known as a spring migrant to that 

 country. The same may be said regarding Spain, but in Por- 

 tugal the species is almost unknown, though Mr. Tait says 

 " there is one in the Lisbon Museum, obtained at Barranhos " 

 (Ibis, 1887, p. 92). It nests sparingly in North-eastern Africa. 

 The winter home of the Wood-Warbler appears to be in 

 North-eastern Africa, but it also winters in Western Africa, 

 having been procured at the Gold Coast by Captain Shelley 

 and Mr. T. E. Buckley. 



