CHIFF-CHAFF WARBLER. 
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and materials as that of the last, feathers in 
addition being always used for the lining. The 
eggs are smaller, but are very similar in colour 
and shape. 
Its extra European range yet recorded, is 
Trebizond, * and the western parts of Europe.f 
Upper parts pale oil green ; a rather indistinct 
streak extends above each eye, and surrounds 
the orbits ; quills and tail are hair brown, edges 
of the feathers yellowish white ; the margins of 
the lesser wing coverts, and edges of the quills, 
pale yellow ; the under parts yellowish-white, 
clearest on the centre of the belly and throat, and 
across the breast, and on the flanks, sulphur 
yellow ; the legs are yellowish brown. Length 
about four inches and three-fourths. Female 
slightly less, a little more tinged with brown 
above, and having the yellow of the under parts 
less clear. 
The Chiff-Chaff Warbler, Sylvia hippo- 
lais, Selby. — Chiff-Chaff, Least Willow Wren, 
Lesser Pettychaps of British authors . — This little 
Warbler, arriving in its summer stathm , con- 
siderably earlier than any of the preceding, is at 
once betrayed by the peculiar call note whence 
its provincial name has been derived, and which 
is so plainly uttered as never to be mistaken if it 
has once been heard. It is by no means, how- 
ever, a very common species, and northward it 
* Mr Strickland. t Mr Gould. 
