15 

 WOOD WARBLER. 



Sylvia sibilatrix, Meyer, British Birds, Folio Ed., vol. i, pi. 69 (coloured 



figure of adult and egg) [1835-43] ; Rewitson, British Oology, 1st 

 Ed., vol. i, pi. 118, fig. 3 (egg), 1837 ; id., Eggs of British Birds, 

 2nd Ed., vol. i, pp. 99-100, pi. 28, fig. (egg), 1846; id., id., 3rd 

 Ed., vol. i, pp. 135-136, pi. 36, fig. 3 (egg), 1856. 



Phyllopneuste sylvicola, Macgillivray, British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 364-370 

 (woodcut of head), 1839. 



Phyllopneuste sibilatrix, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., 

 pi. 67 (coloured figures of adults), 1862. 



Phylloscopus sibilatrix, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, edited by 

 Newton, vol. i, pp. 427-431 (woodcuts of bird and nest), 1873 ; 

 Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 497-501, pi. 77, fig. 2 (coloured 

 figure of adult male), 1876; Booth, Bough Notes, vol. ii, pp. 57-58, 

 1883 ; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 426-429, pi. 10, fig. 12 

 (egg), 1883 ; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 62, pi. 31 

 (coloured figure of adult male), 1886 ; Saunders, Manual of British 

 Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 71-72 (woodcut), 1897. 



Danish, Gronsanger ; D utch, Fluiter ; French, Bee-fin siffleur ; German, 

 Wald-Laubvogel ; Hungarian, Zold Bendike ; Italian, Lui verde ; Eussian, 

 Pienka ; Spanish, Mosqueta ; Swedish, Gronsang are. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 



Adult Male in Spring.— The upper parts generally are 

 greenish yellow, slightly more greyish on the back but more 

 yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts. The superciliary 

 stripe is bright yellow, lores and upper ear-coverts grey forming 

 a dark streak through the eye, sides of the head and neck olive 

 yellow becoming pure light yellow on the throat and crop, and 

 the rest of the underparts pure white, the flanks being washed 

 with a faint olive yellow. The wings are rather dark greyish 

 brown, the outer edges of the innermost secondaries being 

 broadly edged with light greyish yellow, while the rest of 

 the flight feathers are narrowly edged with the same colour 

 as the back. The secondary coverts are broadly edged with 



