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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 Ed., 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; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 70, pl. 35 (coloured figure of adult male), 1887; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 61-62 (woodcut), 1897.

 

Croatian, Zenica zlatoglavka; Czechisch, Pruhohlávek skromny; French, Roitelet modeste; Italian, Proregolo; German, Gelbbrauiger Laubsanger, Hungarian, Körályka Lombzenér; Swedish, Kungsfogellika Sångaren.

 

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 line 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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