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GARDEN WARBLER.

Sylvia hortensis, Meyer, British Birds, Folio Ed., vol i, pl. 64 (coloured figure of adult and egg) [1835-43]; Macgillivray, British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 345-349 (woodcut of head), 1839; Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, 3rd Ed., vol. i, pp. 128-129, pl. 34, figs. 3 and 4 (eggs), 1856; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i pp. 400-404, pl. 10, fig. 2 (egg), 1883; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 54, pl. 27 (coloured figure of adult), 1886; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 49-50 (woodcut), 1897.

Curruca hortensis, Hewitson, British Oology, 1st Ed., vol. i, pl. 42, figs. 1 and 2 (eggs), 1833; Id., Eggs of British Birds, 2nd Ed., vol. i, p. 95, pl. 27, fig. 3 (egg), 1846; Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., pl. 62 (coloured figures of adults), 1865; Booth, Rough Notes, vol. ii, p. 57, 1883.

Sylvia salicaria, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, edited by Newton, pp. 414-417 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 429-433, pl. 67 (coloured figure of adult male), 1876.

Danish, Havesanger; Dutch, Tuinfluiter; French, Fauvette des Jardins; German, Garten-Grasmücke; Italian, Beccafico; Hungarian, Kerti Poszata; Russian, Travnik; Spanish, Pinzoleta Piula; Swedish, Hāchsångare.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE.

Adult Male in Spring.—The upper parts are uniform olive brown, the wings and tail being slightly darker. The flight and tail feathers are tipped with light brown, the innermost secondaries being broadly edged with the same colour. The lores are ashy grey, ear-coverts the same colour as the upper parts though rather lighter, and the sides of the neck slightly suffused with ash grey. The underparts and under tail-coverts are whitish grey, whilst the upper breast and flanks are washed with light olive. The underside of the tail is grey with white shafts to the feathers, underside of the wing greyish and the under wing-coverts and axillaries pale cinnamon buff. The bill is horn brown, becoming more lead colour towards the tip and buffish flesh at the base of the lower mandible, the mouth being flesh colour. Iris is dark brown. The feet are

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