PHYLLOSCOPUS. HYPOLAIS. 17 



Phylloscopus sibilatrix. Wood-Waeblee. 



Motacilla sibilatrix^ Bechstein, Naturforsch. xxvii. 



p. 47 (1793). 

 Sylvia sibilatrix, Naum. iii. p. 556 ; Gray, p. 53. 

 Phyllopneuste sylvicola, Macg. ii. p. 364. 

 Sylvia sibillatrix, Hewitson, p. 135. 



Sylvia sylvicola, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 324 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 346. 

 Phylloscopus sibilatrix, Newton, i. p. 427j Dresser, ii. p. 497. 

 Phyllopneuste sibilatrix, Gould, ii. p. 67; Hurting, p. 17. 

 Wood Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 397. 



Sibilatrix =iiha,i hisses or whistles, from sibUare=io whistle. 



A summer migrant to Great Britain and North temperate 

 Europe. Winters in North Africa, 



Genus HYPOLAIS, C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1838, p. 1383. 



Hypoldis =ii7roXais, a bird mentioned by Aristotle {Hist. An. yi. 7. 5) ; pro- 

 bably so called from its creeping under (tijrd) stones (Xaas). Linnaeus wrote 

 hippolais by mistake (c/. Newton, I. c. infra). 



Hypolais icterina. icTEEmE Waeblee. 



Sylvia icterina, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 



p. 194 (1817). 

 Sylvia hypolais, Naum. iii. p. 540. 

 Sylvia hippolais, Hewitson, p. 141 ; Gray, p. 53; Yarr. ed. 2, 



Suppl. p. 13 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 357. 

 Hypolais icterina, Newton, i. p. 360 ; Dresser, ii. p. 521. 

 Ficedula hypolais, Gould, ii. pi. 71. 

 Phyllopneuste hypolais, Harting, p. 106. 



Icterina, adj. from tKr6pos=a bird of a yellowish-green colour, by looking at 

 which a jaundiced person was cured ; the bird died ! Pliny, N. H. 30. 11. Cf. 

 Galbula and Charadrius. 



This bird has twice occurred in the British Islands (Dover 

 and near Dublin) . Breeds in Central and Northern Europe, 

 extending northwards to the Arctic Circle, passing through 

 South Europe and North Africa on migration, and wintering 



in South Africa. 



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