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PASSE RES. 



SYLVJ1DM. 



HYPOLAIS ICTERINA (Vieillot*). 

 THE ICTERINE WARBLER. 



Sylvia hippolais . t 



HYPOLAIS, C. L. Brelim^.. Bill stout, very wide at the base, the edges 

 straight, somewhat compressed towards the tip, which is slightly emarginated. 

 Nostrils basal, oblique, oval and exposed. Wings rather long and pointed, the 

 first quill very short, the third usually the longest. Tail moderate, rounded, 

 square or slightly forked. Legs .with the tarsi short, the feet small, and the 

 claws short but much curved. 



ON the occurrence of this addition to the British Fauna, 

 I was favoured by the late Dr. Plomley with the information 

 that an example was killed at Eythorne, near Dover, June 

 15th, 1848, the person who shot it having been attracted 

 by its extraordinary loud and melodious song. The specimen 

 is now in the collection of Dr. Scott of Chudleigh, but 



* Sylvia icterina, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 194 (1817). 



t Motacilla hippolais (by mistake), Linnseus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i, p. 330. 



J Hippolai* (by mistake), C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1283. 



