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BONELLl'S WABBLEB. 



INSECTIVOE^. 



Familt/ SYLVIID^. 



Genus Phylloscopus. fF. Bote. J 



Generic Characters. — Bill slender, rather short; upper mandible decurved 

 from the middle, and compressed towards the tip, which is very slightly 

 notched; nostrils basal, lateral, oblong, and partly operculate, the membrane 

 clothed with small bristle-tipped feathers, the internasal ridge very thin ; 

 gape beset with hairs. Wings rather long; the first primary in most species 

 comparatively large, but always much shorter than the second, third, or 

 fourth, one of the two last being the longest. Tail of twelve feathers, 

 slightly forked. Legs with the tarsus scaled in front and rather long, as 

 are also the toes and claws. 



BONELLl'S WAEBLER. 



Phylloscopus BoJielli. 



Sylvia Bonelli, 



natteri, 



Phyllopneuste Bonelli, 



Ficedula Bonellii, 

 Pouillot Bonelli, Bee-fin 



Naiterer, 

 Berg-Laubsdnger, 

 JVatierer's Sanger, 

 Lui Biafico, 



ViEiLLOT ; Faun. France, pi. 96, f. 3, et 



Tabl. Encycl. Ornith., 1823. 

 Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 



SCHLEGEL, 1844. MtJHLE, 1 856. 



Bree ; I St. Edition. 



Temminck; Man., 1820. 



ScHiNz; Europ. Faun., 1840. 



Bonaparte, 1832. 



Z. Gerbe; Diet., 1848. Degland, 1849. 



ScHLEGEL, 1844. 



Of THE French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Meyer and Brehm. 

 Savi. 



Specific Characters. — Upper parts of the body brownish grey; inferior 

 parts white; rump and upper tail coverts yellow green; wings reach to 



