vieillot’s willow WAU1U,EK. 
G.3 
greenish; greater Aving coverts have a green ash-colour 
on the edges; tail brown, bordered with yellowish 
grey, the external quills darker, the others finely bor- 
dered with russet white; iris, dark brown; superior 
mandible brown, inferior yellow; tarsi and feet bluish; 
claws browui. 
The young before and cifter their first moult are not 
very different from the adult birds; all the colours are 
paler, and the fringes of the wings and tail, instead of 
being whitish or greenish, are of a bright yellowish 
green. 
Figured by Vieillot, in the Faun, Fr,, pi, 96, figs, 
2 and 3; by Bufibn, PI, Enl, 581, as Fauvette des 
Roseaux; Prince Charles Bonaparte, in Fauna Italica, 
pi, 28, fig, 2, under the name of Sylvia hijypolais ; and 
by M, des Murs, Iconographie Ornithologique, livraison 
X,, 184T, from which my figure is taken. 
