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Icterlna, adj. from iKrepos a bird of yellowish-green colour, by looking at 

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

 Cf. Galbula and Charadrius. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bird of Passage in 

 small numbers and probably much overlooked. It has occur- 

 red in spring or autumn, or at both seasons, in the Shetland 

 Islands, on the east coast of England, in Sussex, and the 

 Isle of Wight, Also once in Ireland ; co. Dublin, June 1 856. 



General Distribution. The Icterine Warbler breeds 

 throughout Europe, from above the Arctic Circle in Norway 

 and Archangel in Russia, to the Mediterranean, with the 

 exception of western France, Spain, and Greece, and extends 

 east to the Urals. It also occurs in north Africa as far 

 west as Tunisia, and winters in tropical Africa. 



Hypolais polyglotta. MELODIOUS WARBLER. 



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

 1817, p. 200 : France. 



Hypolais polyglotta (Vieill.); Seebokm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, 

 p. 79 ; Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 77. 



Polyglotta=-wiih many notes, from 7ro\us=many, and yXaiaaa tongue. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 been obtained in the British Isles as follows : In Sussex, 

 April 1897 and May 1900 ; in Cornwall, May 1905 ; in co. 

 Cork, Sept. 1905 ; and at the Isle of May, Fife, in Sept. 1913. 



General Distribution. The Melodious Warbler breeds in 

 south-western Europe as far north as central France, and 

 as far east as Italy, and in north-western Africa. It has 

 occurred in Belgium, Heligoland, and Austria. It winters 

 in western Africa. 



Genus PHYLLOSCOPUS Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 

 Type : P. trochilus (Linn.). 

 Phylloscfyus, from (j>v\\oi> = & leaf, and <nco7reo> = I look at. 



