BRITISH WARBLERS 



The female resembles the male, but the crown is not quite 

 so dark and the outer edges of the flight-feathers are more 

 buffish brown. 



In autumn the crown is more greyish, and the under parts, 

 especially the throat and upper breast, are washed with 

 rosy buff, the flanks tending more towards rosy brown. 



Immature. — The general colour is similar to that of the 

 female, but the upper parts are of a more brownish colour 

 and the outer edges of the flight-feathers and wing-coverts 

 rusty buff. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



There are four records of the occurrence of this species in 

 Great Britain, two of which seem to be somewhat doubtful. 

 The bird inhabits south-western Europe and north-western 

 Africa. It is common in Spain and Portugal, and is found in 

 southern and central France, Luxemburg, and in the western 

 parts of Switzerland. In Italy and Sicily it is local, but it is 

 absent from Corsica and Sardinia, 



Eastwards a somewhat different race, with stouter and 

 longer bill, occurs in Dalmatia, Montenegro, Greece, Asia 

 Minor, Palestine, Bokhara, Afghanistan and Turkestan. 



The eastern form winters in north-eastern Africa, Arabia, 

 and India, but the western race winters probably in west 

 Africa and the oases of the Sahara. 



