80 SYLVIID.E. 



Phylloscopus trochilus. WILLOW- WAEBLER. 



Motacilla trochilus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 188 : 

 England. 



Phylloscopus trochilus (Linn.) ; Seebohm, Gat. Birds B. M. v. 

 1881, p. 56 (part.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 16 ; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, .p. 69. 



Tr8chilus = Tpoxi\os, a small bird, said by Herodotus (2. 68) to pick leeches, 

 fiSeXbai, out of the crocodile's throat. Connected with Tpex< = ~i run. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor, very 

 generally distributed and common. More or less local or 

 rare in the western and northern Islands of Scotland, but 

 has nested in the Shetlands. A Bird of Passage, common in 

 spring and autumn, from the Shetlands southwards, when 

 en route to and from its continental summer haunts, and its 

 African winter retreats. Individuals occasionally spend the 

 winter in the south of England and in Ireland. 



General Distribution. The Willow- Warbler breeds from 

 Lapland and northern Russia, throughout Europe, with the 

 exception of the Balkan Peninsula and north-eastern Russia. 

 It winters in Africa to Cape Colony, and in small numbers 

 in southern Europe. 



Phylloscopus trochilus eversmanni. 



NORTHERN WILLOW- WARBLER. 



Phyllopneuste eversmanni Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. 

 Av. i. 1850, p. 289 : Kazan and Orenburg, Russia. 



Phylloscopus trochilus eversmanni (Bonap.) ; C. B. Ticehurst, 

 Bull. B. O. O. xxiii. 1908, p. 20. 



Eversmanni, named in honour of the naturalist and traveller, Edward 

 Friedrich Eversmann (1794-1860), who was born in Germany and subsequently 

 entered the Russian service. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bird of Passage, 

 observed chiefly on the south and east coasts of Britain and 

 at the Shetlands, in spring and autumn, when journeying to 

 and from its summer haunts in north-east Europe. 



