WILLOW WARBLER. 333 
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, 
Hsq. 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 im their nestling feathers resemble the 
