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DARTFORD WARBLER. 



Melizophilus provincialis, Meyer, British Birds, folio Ed., vol. i, pi. 67 

 (coloured figure of adult male and egg) [1835-43] ; Macgillivray, 

 British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 383-387 (woodcut), 1839 ; Heiuitson, 

 British Oology, 1st Ed., vol. ii, 1 p., pi. 147 (egg), 1838; id., Eggs 

 of British Birds, 2nd Ed., vol. i, pp. 105-106, pi. 29 (egg), 1846 ; 

 id., id., 3rd Ed., vol. i, pp. 143-145, pi. 37 (eggs), 1854; Gould, 

 Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., pi. 59 (coloured figures of 

 adults), 1862 ; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 48, pi. 24 

 (coloured figures of adults), 1887. 



Melizophilus undatus, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., edited by Newton, 

 vol. i, pp. 398-405 (2 woodcuts of bird and nest), 1873; Dresser, 

 Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 441-446, pi. 69 (coloured figures of adult 

 and young), 1875. 



Sylvia undata, Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 414-417, pi. 10, fig. 7 

 (egg), 1883. 



Sylvia provincialis, Booth, Bough Notes, vol. ii, pp. 67-68, 1885. 



Sylvia undata, Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 55-56 

 (woodcut), 1897. 



Erencb, Pitchou Provencal; German, Provence- Grasmilcke ; Italian, 

 Magnanina Portuguese, Gheide ; Spanish, Golorin Caganchina. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 



Adult Male in Spring. — The upper parts are dark chocolate 

 brown but rather more slate colour on the crown. The wing- 

 coverts are the same colour as the back, the flight-feathers 

 dark brown, the innermost secondaries rather broadly edged 

 with rusty brown, and the remainder narrowly edged with the 

 same colour. The bastard wing is slate colour with narrow 

 whitish edges to the feathers and the axillaries are whitish. 

 The tail is slate colour, each feather being edged with 

 brownish grey becoming lighter towards the tip, and the 

 outer web of the outermost tail-feather is whitish towards the 

 tip. The shafts are dark slate. The space in front of the eye 



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