"BRITISH WARBLERS 



have dark centres forming three longitudinal stripes, the 

 lores are blackish brown, cheeks brown, and the upper parts 

 of the ear coverts slightly more dusky, these latter forming 

 with the lores a darkish stripe through the eye. The 

 hinder part of the neck is almost unspotted, whereas on 

 the back and shoulders each feather has a blackish brown 

 centre forming about six stripes on the back. The wing- 

 coverts are blackish brown with umber brown edges to each 

 feather, the flight-feathers are brown with slightly lighter 

 edges, the innermost secondaries having blackish brown 

 centres and light umber brown edges, the primaries having 

 narrow whitish brown tips. The upper part of the tail is dark 

 umber brown with lighter edges of the same tint, both colours 

 getting lighter towards the outermost rectrices. The throat 

 is whitish, the crop and sides of the neck buff shading into 

 umber buff on the flanks and under tail-coverts. Abdomen 

 whitish, and the under part of the tail greyish brown with 

 a wash of lavender grey. 



Immature. — The colour of the young is much like that 

 of the adults, but richer. The crown is blackish, each feather 

 narrowly edged with olive buff, the combined effect being, 

 when the feathers are in perfect order, that of six fairly broad 

 blackish stripes divided by narrow olive buff lines. There is 

 a conspicuous light buff superciliary stripe, the lores are 

 blackish, uppermost ear-coverts dusky, the combined effect 

 being a dark streak through the eye ; on the nape the blackish 

 centre and olive buff edges of the feathers are of equal 

 strength ; on the back and shoulders the blackish centres 

 are most conspicuous, forming about six fairly well defined 

 longitudinal stripes; on the rump and upper tail-coverts the 

 olive buff becomes slightly rusty or richer olive buff and the 

 dark centres to the feathers are less conspicuous. The upper 

 part of the tail is brownish slate, each feather edged with 

 olive buff slightly lighter on the outermost ones, the shafts 

 being dark lavender brown. The wings are darkish brown 

 slate, each feather boldly edged with olive buff, narrower on 



