SUB-ALPINE WARBLER. 
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Zoological Society on the 19th of November, 1895. They 
were shot on the Yorkshire coast about the ist of November, 
1893, and had been mounted by local bird-stuffers as Common 
Bullfinches. A third specimen has been recorded by Mr. 
J . H. Gurney as having been obtained on the Caistor denes in 
Norfolk. 
Range outside the British Islands. — Replaces P. eiiropma in 
Scandinavia, and from Poland eastwards throughout Siberia. 
Habits. — Exactly like those of its smaller western representa- 
tive. The eggs are slightly larger than those of P. eiiropoea. 
Rage 189. Insert : — 
THE SUB-ALPINE WARBLER. SYLVIA SUB-ALPINA. 
Sylvia sub-alpina, Temm. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 214 (1820, ex 
Bonelli, MSS.); Dresser, B. Eur. ii. p. 389, pi. 59 (1875). 
Adiut Male. — Slaty-grey above ; wings brown, with pale edges 
to the coverts, the secondaries more broadly margine d ; tail 
brown, the three or four outside feathers with more or less 
white ; chin, throat, and breast chestnut, shading off into paler 
chestnut on the flanks; the centre of the abdomen and under 
tail-coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts pale grey, with darker 
centres ; axillaries pale vinous grey ; a narrow white line along 
the sides of the head separating the chestnut of the lower 
surface from the grey of the upper ; bill dark horn-colour, the 
lower mandible light yellowish at the base ; feet dusky brown ; 
iris brown ; eyelid reddish. Total length, 4-6 inches ; culmen, 
0-45 ; wing, 2-3 ; tail, 2'i ; tarsus, 07. 
Adult Female. — Browner than the male above, and not so 
ashy-grey. The chestnut of the under parts replaced by buffy- 
white, with a vinous tinge on the sides of the breast. The 
birds of the year are buffy-brown on the breast and flanks, the 
male being a little greyer than the female. 
Characters. — This little Warbler is allied to the Whitethroats, 
but is smaller than any of them, the wing being less than 2-5 
inches in length, while the colour of the legs and feet is brown. 
It is distinguished from all the small Warblers of the White- 
throat group by its chestnut chin and breast. 
