. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . any noticeable barring onthe buff-grey head and hair-brown back, but the grey uppertail-coverts had grey edges which showed distinctly in certainlights. The whole of the under parts except the belly was buff,and the under tail-coverts were clearly barred with grey. Whenin the bushes no suggestion of bars was apparent. Length, 66ins. Wing, 3*5 ins. Tarsus, i in. Subalpine IHarbler. Sylvia subalpi?ia Temm. When the Subalpine Warbler was first seen by Mr. SteeleElliott on St. Kilda in 1894, its grey upper parts and warmchestfiut flanks suggested t
. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . any noticeable barring onthe buff-grey head and hair-brown back, but the grey uppertail-coverts had grey edges which showed distinctly in certainlights. The whole of the under parts except the belly was buff,and the under tail-coverts were clearly barred with grey. Whenin the bushes no suggestion of bars was apparent. Length, 66ins. Wing, 3*5 ins. Tarsus, i in. Subalpine IHarbler. Sylvia subalpi?ia Temm. When the Subalpine Warbler was first seen by Mr. SteeleElliott on St. Kilda in 1894, its grey upper parts and warmchestfiut flanks suggested to him a small Dartford Warbler, butit is a paler, smaller bird, and has a white moustachial streakfrom the base of the bill, pale edges to the secondaries, and ashorter tail. It breeds in the south-east of France, Italy,Corsica and Sardinia, and has twice, as a wanderer in spring,been added to the list of accidental British birds—one atSt. Kilda and one, in 1908, on Fair Island. Length, 47 , 2-3 ins. Tarsus, 75 in. 0 ::-^J^^^ ..W^-v.
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