Sylvia hippolais, Meyer, British Birds, Folio Ed., vol. i. (coloured plate figuring adult and egg) [1835-43]; Hewitson, British Oology, 1st Ed., vol. i, 2 pp, pl. 118, fig. 1 (egg) [1836]; id., Eggs of British Birds, 2nd Ed., vol. i, pp. 103-104, pl. 28, fig. 2 (egg), 1846.
Phyllopneuste hippolais, Macgillivray, British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 379-381, 1839.
Sylyia rufa, Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, 3rd Ed., pp. 139-140, pl. 36, fig. 4 (egg), 1856.
Phyllopneuste rufa, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp. pl. 66 (coloured figures of adults), 1862.
Phylloscopus collybita, Yarrell's British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, edited by Newton, pp. 437-442 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pl. 75, fig. 1, pl. 76, fig. 1 (adult males in spring and autumn plumage), pp. 485-490, 1879; Booth, Bough Notes, vol. ii, pl. 63-66 (1883).
Phylloscopus rufus, Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 435-440, pl. 10, fig. 11 (egg), 1883; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 67-78 (woodcut), 1897.
Phylloscopus minor, Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 68, pl. 34 (coloured figure of adult male), 1887.
Adult Male in Spring.—Upper parts are bullish olive, slightly brighter on the rump. Upper tail-coverts bullish olive, similar to the crown and back. There is a distinct, though not conspicuous, superciliary stripe, and the lores are slightly dusky. The ear-coverts and the side of the neck are bullish olive, slightly lighter than the back. Upper parts of the wings and tail are brownish grey, shafts of the tail-
