vieillot's willow w^aubler. G3 



greenish; greater wing coverts have a green ash-colour 

 on the edges: tail brown, bordered with yelloAvisli 

 grey, the external quills darker, the others finely bor- 

 dered with russet white; iris, dark brown; superior 

 mandible brown, inferior yellow; tarsi and feet bluish; 

 claws brown. 



The young before and after their first moult are not 

 very different from the adult birds; all the colours are 

 paler, and the fringes of the wings and tail, instead of 

 being whitish or greenish, are of a bright yellowish 

 green. 



Figured by Vieillot, in the Faun. Fr., pi. 96, figs. 

 2 and 3; by Buff"on, PI. EnL, 581, as Fauvette des 

 Roseaux; Prince Charles Bonaparte, in Fauna Italica, 

 pi. 28, fig. 2, under the name of Sijkia Mppolais ; and 

 by M. des Murs, Iconographie Ornithologique, livraison 

 X., 1847, from which my figure is taken. 



