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ICTERINE WARBLER.

 

Hypolais icterina, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., edited by Newton, vol. i, pp. 360-363 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 521-525, pl. 81 (coloured figures of adult and young), 1874; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 32, pl. 16 (coloured figure of adult), 1886; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 75-76 (woodcut), 1897.

Hypolais hypolais, Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 381-384, pl. 10, fig. 13 (egg), 1883.

Dutch, Spotvogel; French, Bec-fin à poitrine jaune; German, Gelber Spottvogel; Hungarian, Sárga füzike; Italian, Canapino maggiore; Norwegian, Bastard-Nattergal; Russian, Penotschkasadovaja; Swedish, Gulbröstad sångare.

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE.

 

Adult Male in Spring.—The upper parts generally are pale olive green, but the upper tail-coverts are rather more olive brown. The wings are brown, the primaries being edged with pale greyish green and narrowly tipped with white, whilst the secondaries are edged with the same colour, which becomes paler on the innermost secondaries. The primary coverts and bastard wing are of a uniform brown colour, the secondary coverts brown broadly edged with pale greyish green, and the median coverts are the same colour as the upper parts. The tail is brown, the outer edge of each feather being pale greyish green. The superciliary stripe is light yellow, the lores yellow, the cheeks brownish yellow, and the under parts pure light yellow washed with brown on the sides of the upper breast. The axillaries and under wing coverts are white washed with sulphur yellow. The under side of the wing is light brown, the inner edges of the feathers being whitish with a trace of yellow; the under tail-coverts

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