28 BRITISH BIRDS. 



pale yellow : belly and under tail-coverts white ; bill and 

 tarsi brown. Length 5-0 ; wing 3*00 (wing is longer, tail 

 shorter, and plumage yellower, than in the two preceding 

 species). Female identical ; young somewhat yellower. 



A summer visitor to most counties of England and 

 Scotland, but very local. Rare in Ireland ; Mr. Ussher 

 says it is a regular summer visitor to Powerscourt, Co. 

 Wicklow, and Clonbrock, Co. Galway. Arrives late in 

 April, departing in September ; frequents chiefly the older 

 woodlands and forests. Nest (placed on ground among 

 rank herbage or in a bank) is similar to Willow- Wren's 

 but lined with fine grass and hair never with feathers. 

 Eggs : 5 to 7 ; white, speckled all over with dark purplish- 

 brown and lilac-grey, most closely at larger end ; size 

 65 by '56. Call note, tee-ur ; the " shivering " song is 

 not easily syllabled. 



GENUS XIII. AEDON, Bole (1826}. 

 Bill rather long, strong, ridge of upper mandible curved 

 and tip compressed. Wings with ist quill small, 3rd 

 longest. Tail long, rounded. Tarsus rather long; toes small. 



35. Aedon galaetodes (Temm,). RUFOUS WARBLER. 



Hab. Northern Africa, Southern Palestine, and 

 southern half of Spanish Peninsula. Migrating south- 

 ward in winter. 



Male : above rufous-brown, with a whitish streak above 

 and behind eye ; wings brown, with pale margins ; tail 

 reddish-chestnut, with a black band acrols end, succeeded 

 by white tips to all but two central feathers ; lower plumage 

 white, tinged with buff on breast and flanks ; bill and 

 tarsi brown. Length 670. 



Three occurrences only of this species have been 

 recorded, viz., one shot near Brighton (1854), and two in 

 Devonshire (1859 and 1876). 



