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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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THE Wood Wren (Phylloscopus sibilatrix, Bechstein) is a 

 summer visitor to the British Islands, and also to the tem- 

 perate parts of Northern Europe. It wends its way to 

 North Africa to spend the winter. The adult male in 

 nuptial plumage has the upper parts yellowish -green; a 

 broad streak of sulphur-yellow passes over and behind the 

 eye; wing-coverts, olive-green, margined with paler green; 

 primaries, brown, tipped with whitish, and edged with 

 yellowish -green; tail, greyish-brown; throat and breast, 

 sulphur -yellow; abdomen and under tail-coverts, white; 

 irides, hazel; bill, dark brown, much lighter below; legs 

 and feet, brown. Length, from four to five inches. The 

 female is similar in plumage to the male. 



