82 SYLVIItoiE. 



Austria-Hungary. It winters in Africa as far south as the 

 Congo and Abyssinia^ and in southern Arabia. A slightly 

 different form, P. s. erlangeri, has been recognised in 

 southern Europe and probably in north-west Africa. 



Phylloscopus coUybita. Chiffchaff. 



Sylvia coUybita Vieilht, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 1817, 

 p. 235 : France. 



Phylloscopus rufus (Bechst.) ; SeeloJim, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 

 1881, p. 60; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 16; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 67. 



CoUybita is probably an error for collybistes = KoXXi5/3t(TT^s = a money 

 changer, for in Normandy Vieillot found that the bird was called " Comptevir 

 d'argent " 



Distribution in the British Islands.— A Summer Visitor, 

 more or less locally but widely distributed in England, 

 Ireland, and southern Scotland. North of the Forth to the 

 Shetlands it is chiefly known on migration, and has but seldom 

 been recorded on the western side north of Argyll. It occa- 

 sionally winters in the south of England and in Ireland. 



General Distribution. — The ChifFchaff breeds in central, 

 western, and southern Europe as far north as France and 

 western Germany. It winters in southern Europe and 

 northern Africa, occasionally remaining in France and south- 

 west Germany. 



Phylloscopus coUybita abietinus. 



Scandinavian Chiffchaff. 



Sylvia abietina MUson, Kgl. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1819, 



p, 115 : Sweden. 



Phylloscopus coUybita abietinus (M/'lss.) ; Bonhote, Bull. B. O. C. 

 xxiii. 1908, p. 21. 



Ahietinus=oi a fir tree, abies. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bird of Passage to 

 and from northern Europe, and of regular occurrence in 

 spring and autumn at Fair Isle, Shetlands, and doubtless 



