BRITISH WARBLERS 



the underside of the tail grey. The lesser under wing-coverts 

 are white, barred with brown at the end, and the axillaries 

 white, washed with light ochre and indistinctly barred. The 

 bill is horn brown, the base of the lower mandible being 

 yellowish flesh colour, and the iris bright yellow. Feet are 

 light greyish brown with pale flesh-coloured soles. 



Adult Female in Spring.— The general colour of the upper 

 parts is very similar to that which we find in the male, but 

 rather more brownish, the ash colour on the crown, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts being scarcely conspicuous. The under 

 parts are almost white, slightly washed with light ochre, 

 and with a suggestion of the barred pattern found in the 

 male. The abdomen is pure white. 



Immature. — The general colour is lighter and greyer than 

 that of the adult in spring, with but a trace of the pattern. 

 The underparts are white, washed with light rusty grey on 

 the upper breast and flanks, the barred pattern being occa- 

 sionally suggested. Iris is sulphur yellow. Feet lead colour 

 with yellowish soles. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



From time to time a number of examples of this species 

 have been met with in Great Britain and Ireland, the records 

 coming from Kent, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, 

 Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Lancashire, Anglesey, the Isle of 

 Man, the Isle of Skye, Argyll, the Outer Hebrides, Shetland, 

 Fair Isle and St. Kilda, and in Ireland from Belmullet and 

 Eockabill Light. 



To the western parts of Europe the bird is a scarce 

 visitor, but in Germany, though local and. rarer in the 

 west, it is, nevertheless, generally distributed, and especially 

 common in the eastern provinces, and northwards is found 

 breeding in Denmark and the southern parts of Sweden. 

 In the northern provinces of Italy it is found in suitable 

 localities, but is of rare occurrence in the central and 



