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PLATE 9. 1. Continental Blue Titmouse (Parti* c. cceruleus). 

 2, British Blue Titmouse (P. c. obscurus). 3, Continental Coal- 

 Titmouse (P. a. ater). 4, Adult, 5, Juvenile of British Coal-Titmouse 

 (P. a. britannicus). 6, Irish Coal-Titmouse (P. a. hibernicus). 1, 

 British Marsh -Titmouse (P. p. dresseri). 8, British Willow- 

 Titmouse (P. a. kleinschmidti) facing 232 



Scottish Crested Titmouse (Partis c. scoticus),'' adult and juvenile heads 238 



PLATE 10. 1, Northern Long-tailed Titmouse (&githalos c. caudatus). 



2, Adult, 3, Juvenile of British Long-tailed Titmouse (JB. c. 



roseus). 4, Adult, 5, Juvenile of British Golden- crested Wren 



(Regulus r. anglorum). 6, Fire-crested Wren (R. i. ignicapillus). 



7, Adult male, 8, Adult female. 9, Juvenile of Bearded Titmouse 

 (Panurus b. biarmicus). 10, Adult male, 11, Juvenile of Red- 

 backed Shrike (Lanius c. collurio). 12, Juvenile Spotted Fly- 

 catcher (Muscicapa s. striata) ... ... ... ... facing 256 



Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor), showing difference in wing- 

 formula as compared with Great Grey Shrike ... ... ... 260 



Great Grey Shrike (L. e. excubitor), head 263 



Great Grey Shrike, wing - 264 



Corsican Woodchat Shrike (L. s. badius) and the Woodchat Shrike 



(L. s. senator), wings ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 268 



Masked Shrike (L. nubicus), head 272 



Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus), head and wing ... ... ... 279 



Pied Flycatcher (Muscicapa h. hypoleuca), head and wing ... ... 289 



Collared Flycatcher (M. albicollis), head and wing 293 



Red-breasted Flycatcher (M. p. parva), tail 295 



Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus c. collybita) and Willow-Warbler (Ph. t. 



trockilus), showing difference in wing-formula ... ... ... 299 



Greenish Warbler (Ph. n. viridanus), showing difference in wing- 

 formula as compared with Eversmann's Warbler ... ... ... 308 



Wood-Warbler (Ph. s. sibilatrix), showing minute 1st primary ... 309 



Eversmann's Warbler (Ph. b. borealis), showing difference in wing- 

 formula as compared with Greenish Warbler ... ... ... 312 



PLATE 11. 1, Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus c. collybita) winter. 2, Siberian 

 Chiffchaff (Ph. c. tristis) winter. 3, Adult summer, 4, First 

 winter of Willow-Warbler (Ph. t. trochilus). 5, Northern Willow- 

 Warbler (Ph. t. eversmannij adult summer. 6, Greenish Warbler 

 (Ph. n. viridanus). 7, Wood-Warbler (Ph. s. sibilatrix) juvenile. 



8, Eversmann's Warbler (Ph. b. borealis) first winter. 9, Yellow- 

 browed Warbler (Ph. h. prcemium) winter ... ... facing 312 



Dusky Warbler (Ph. fuscatus), head, wing and tail ... 318 



Radde's Bush- Warbler (Herbivocula schwarzi) and Dusky Warbler 



(Ph. fuscat.us), bills 320 



Cetti's Warbler (Cettia c. cetti), tail 322 



Moustached Warbler (Lusciniola m. melanopogon), tail ... ... 324 



PLATE 12. 1, Savi's Warbler (Locustella 1. luscinioides). 2, Grass- 

 hopper-Warbler (L n. ncevia), $ summer. 3, Lanceolated 

 Warbler (L. lanceolata) summer. 4, Barred Warbler (Sylvia 

 n. nisoria), 1st winter. 5. Orphean Warbler (S. h. horten- 

 sis) <J. 6, Garden-Warbler (8. borin). 7, Blackcap (S. a. atri- 



capilla) <J facing 328 



Pallas 's Grasshopper- Warbler (Locustella ccrthiola), tail 329 



Great Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus a. arundinaceus), head ... ... 335 



Great Reed-Warbler and Eastern Great Reed -Warbler (A. a. orientalis) 



showing difference in wings ... ... ... ... ... ... 338 



Reed-Warbler (A. s. scirpaceus), head 339 



Reed-Warbler (.4. s. scirpaceus), Marsh-Warbler (A. palustris) and 



Blyth's Reed-Warbler (A. dumetorum), wings, showing differences 342 

 Moustached Warbler (Lusciniola m. melanopogon), Sedge-Warbler 



(A. schcenobcenus) and Aquatic Warbler (A. aquations), heads ... 346 



