YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. 
Reguloides superciliosus, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., 
pl. 68 (coloured figure of adults), 1869. 
Phylloscopus superciliosus, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Kd., vol. i; 
edited by Newton, pp. 443-448 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds 
of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 469-476, pl. 74 (coloured figures of adult, 
adult males in spring and autumn plumage), 1874; Seebohm, 
British Birds, vol. i, pp. 441-450, pl. 10, fig. 9 (egg), 1883 ; 
Iniford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 70, pl. 85 (coloured figure 
of adult male), 1887; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd 
Ed., pp. 61-62 (woodcut), 1897. 
Croatian, Zenica zlatoglavka ; Czechisch, Pruhohldvek skromny ; French, 
Roitelet modeste ; Italian, Proregolo; German, Gelbbrauiger Laubsanger ; 
Hungarian, Kordlyka Lombzenér ; Swedish, Kungsfogellika Sangaren. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 
Adult in Spring.—The sexes are alike, but the male is 
a trifle brighter. The upper parts are of a darkish olive 
green, slightly brighter and greener on the rump. ‘There is 
a distinct superciliary stripe of whitish yellow and a very 
indistinct lighter lne along the centre of the crown. The 
lores are dark greyish, and continuing behind the eye from 
the superciliary line are two distinct stripes. The sides of 
the face and neck are light olive green tinged with grey, each 
small feather on the cheek being furnished with a whitish 
yellow centre line. The upper parts of the wings are dark 
brownish grey. The least wing-coverts are tinged with olive 
green and have very narrow light margins; the medium and 
greater secondary coverts are tipped with white, forming two 
distinct bands on the wing. The bastard wing and greater 
primary coverts are of the same colour as the wing, but not 
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