WILLOW WARBLER. 



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this bird is common : it is plentiful in Spain and Pro- 

 vence ; appears about Genoa in April, and remains till 

 September ; and is common in Italy, is found at Corfu, 

 Sicily, Malta, Algeria, Nubia, and Egypt. Mr. Strick- 

 land saw it in Asia Minor, the Zoological Society have 

 received specimens from Trebizond ; and B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq. includes it among the birds of Nepal. 



In the adult male the beak is brown ; under mandible 

 pale yellow brown at the base ; irides hazel ; a narrow 

 light-coloured streak over the eye ; crown of the head, 

 neck, back, and upper tail-coverts, dull olive-green ; wing 

 and tail-feathers darker brown, the former edged with 

 green ; the tertials to a greater extent than the primaries : 

 the tail slightly notched, the two middle feathers being a 

 trifle shorter than the others ; chin, throat, and breast, 

 whitish, but strongly tinged with yellow ; belly almost 

 white ; flanks, and under tail-coverts, like the feathers on 

 the front of the neck, tinged with yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts bright yellow, some of which extend over the 

 outer edge of the wing, from the carpal joint to the bas- 

 tard or spurious wing-feathers ; under surface of wing and 

 tail-feathers greyish brown ; legs, toes, and claws, pale 

 brown. 



The whole length of the bird about five inches ; from the 

 carpal joint to the end of the longest primary, two inches 

 and a half; the first quill-feather short ; the second equal 

 in length to the sixth, but not so long as the fifth ; the 

 third, fourth, and fifth feathers, nearly equal in length, and 

 the longest in the wing. 



The females scarcely differ from the males either in size 

 or plumage ; and these birds moult as soon as the breed- 

 ing season is over. 



Young birds in their nestling feathers resemble the 



