74 A CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS 



Family. PHYLLOPNEUSTID^, Begland et Gerle. 

 74. PHYLLOPNEUSTE, Meyer et Wolf. 



85. "Willow "Weex. P. teochilus, {Linnmis.) 



Si/lria frocJiilns, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 165. 

 ,, ,, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, I., 329. 



A spring -and -autumn migrant. Very plentiful. It arrives 

 in April and leaves in September. In the early summer months 

 it makes the woods ring with its short, lively song. 



86. Chipf Chafe. P. etjfa, (Brisson.) 



Stjlvia rufa, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 166. 

 „ Uppolah, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Biixls, Ed. 2., I., 335. 



A pretty common spring -and -autumn migrant, frequenting 

 wooded districts where the trees are lofty, from the tops of which 

 it keeps continually uttering the two peculiar well-known notes 

 from which it takes its name. When it leaves in September, 

 the young and the adult are indistinguishable ; the former being 

 then as fully coloured as their parents. 



87. "Wood Weei^. P. sibilateix, {Bechdein.) 



Sylvia sililairix, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, L, 163. 

 ,, siflricola, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, I., 324. 



A spring-and-autumn migrant. Not uncommon, but some- 

 what local. 



75. REGULOIDES, Bhjth. 



88. Yellow-browed "Warbler. E. supeeciliosus, [Gmelin.) 



Ph/]h)f<copm mpercilioma, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 4, 

 I., 443. 



JReguIoides prorc(julm, Jcrdon, Birds of India, II., 197. 



,, supercilioms, Gould, Birds of Gt. Britain, Part XV. 



A casual visitant. Tlie specimen, figured in Plate VIII. , which 

 gives this interesting little bird the right to rank as a British 



