BRITISH WARBLERS 
feathers light purplish brown, the outer edges being margined 
with buffish olive. The shafts of the wing-feathers are dark 
purplish brown, the outer half of the innermost secondaries 
greyish brown and edged with buffish olive. The tips of the 
primaries are rather darker brown, the greater coverts greyish 
brown narrowly edged with buffish olive, and the medium and 
smaller coverts broadly edged with the same colour, almost 
hiding the brownish grey ground colour. The throat is 
whitish with a narrow inconspicuous line of sulphur yellow, 
and is also margined with a similar line and a broader line 
of light smoky ash colour, which latter colour extends to the 
crop, sides of the breasts, and flanks. 
The abdomen is ashy white, becoming almost white 
towards the crissum; the feathers on the crop and abdomen 
have a dull sulphur coloured pattern on each side, which, 
when the feathers are in perfect order, form narrow longi- 
tudinal stripes. The under tail-coverts are whitish sulphur 
yellow, and the under surface of the tail and wings light 
greyish brown with white shafts. Avxillaries and under wing- 
coverts are sulphur yellow. The iris is dark brown and the 
minute feathers on the eyelid whitish. Upper mandible dark 
purplish brown, lower mandible the same colour at the tip, 
but fleshy brown towards the base. Feet are blackish brown. 
The sexes are alike in colour, but the female is somewhat 
smaller. 
Male in Autumn.—The upper parts are olive brown, 
slightly lighter and more yellow on the rump. The small 
feathers on the eyelid are whitish yellow, and the superciliary 
stripe light buff, with a tinge of yellow just over the eye. 
The sides of the head are olive buff with an indistinct light 
centre to each feather. The upper parts of the tail and the 
wings are greyish brown, edged with olive green. The largest 
feather of the bastard wing is uniform dark greyish brown, the 
innermost secondaries have broad olive green edges to the 
feathers. The under parts are whitish, the throat, neck, 
chest, and flanks being suffused with a rich warm buff, rather 
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