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PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATEIX. 



(WOOD-WREN.) 



Motacilla sibilatrix, Bechst. Naturforscher, xxvii. p. 47 (1793). 



Sylvia sylvicola, Mont. Trans. Lin. Soc. iv. p. 35 (1798). 



Asilus sibillatrix, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 176 (1802). 



Sylvia sibilatrix, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 561 (1807). 



Ficedula sybilatrix (Bechst.), Koch, Baier. Zool. i. p. 159 (1816). 



Curruca sibillatrix (Bechst.), Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 70 (1828). 



Sibilatrix, Kaup (Sylvia sibilatrix, Bechst.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 98 (1829). 



Phyllojmeuste sibillatrix (Bechst.), C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 425 (1831). 



Phyllopneuste megarhynclws, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 425 (1831). 



Phyllopneuste sylvicola (Mont.), C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 426 (1831). 



Sylvicola sibilatrix (Bechst), Eyton, Cat. Brit. B. p. 14 (1836). 



Sylvia sibilans, Blyth, in White's Nat. Hist. Selborne, p. 26, footnote (1858). 



Bee-fin sijfleur, French ; Folosa, Portuguese ; Ltd verde, Italian ; Wald-Laubvogel, German ; 

 Flutter, Dutch ; Gron Sanger, Danish ; Gron Sdngare, Skogs-knettem, Swedish ; Vieherid 

 kerttu, Finnish ; Pienka, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Temminck, PI. Col. 245. fig. 3; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 54; Kjaerb. Orn. Dan. 

 taf. xxi.; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 19. fig. 18; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 80. fig. 2; 

 Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 14. fig. 2; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 131. fig. 3; id. B. of G. 

 Brit. ii. pi. 67. 



Ad. pileo, nucha, dorso, uropygio et tectricibus alarum minoribus viridi-olivaceis sulfureo tinctis, pileo et 

 uropygio magis flavescentibus : fronte et stria superciliari flavis : remigibus et tectricibus alarum 

 majoribus schistaceo-fuseis, pallidiore apicatis et flavo marginatis : rectricibus schistaceo-fuseis, extiis 

 flavo marginatis : loris fuscescentibus : gula, gutture, capitis lateribus et hypochondriis sulfureis : 

 corpore subtus reliquo albo, marginibus alarum flavis : rostro et pedibus brunneis : iride fusca. 



Adult Male (Piedmont, 28th April). Crown, nape, back, lesser wing-coverts, and rump obve-green, tinged 

 with sulphur-yellow, the crown and rump brightest in colour ; forehead and a streak over the eye 

 bright sulphur-yebow ; quills and larger wing-coverts slate-brown with lighter tips, and edged with 

 greenish yellow, the inner secondaries with broader and fighter margins ; tail slaty brown, the feathers 

 externally edged with yellow; lores dusky; chin, upper throat, sides of the head, and flanks delicate 

 sulphur-yellow ; rest of the underparts white ; undersurface of the wings and tail grey, edge of the 

 wing yellow j legs brown ; bill brown, with lighter edges ; iris brown. Total length about 5 inches, 

 culmen 0'5, wing 3'0, tail 2'0, tarsus 072; first primary very short and narrow, 1"8 shorter than the 

 second, which is a trifle longer than the fifth, the third being the longest. 



