. A history of British birds . legs, toesand claws, pale wood-brown. The whole length seven inches ; from the carpal joint tothe end of the third and longest quill, three inches anda half; the second quill about as long as the fifth. It seems as if this species might generally be distinguishedfrom the kindred Aedon familiaris by the lighter and morerufous tints of its upper parts, and especially by the colora-tion of the tail. In A. galactodes the two middle rectricesare, as has been said, of an uniform reddish-buff, while theouter tail-feathers are as above described. In A. famiUaristhe middl
. A history of British birds . legs, toesand claws, pale wood-brown. The whole length seven inches ; from the carpal joint tothe end of the third and longest quill, three inches anda half; the second quill about as long as the fifth. It seems as if this species might generally be distinguishedfrom the kindred Aedon familiaris by the lighter and morerufous tints of its upper parts, and especially by the colora-tion of the tail. In A. galactodes the two middle rectricesare, as has been said, of an uniform reddish-buff, while theouter tail-feathers are as above described. In A. famiUaristhe middle pair of tail-feathers are only reddish-buff on theproximal portion of the outer web, the whole of the innerand the distal part of the outer web being of a greyish-brown,with but a slight inclination to rufous, while the shaft is forat least half its length of the same colour, and on the outerfeathers the black Ijand is gi-eatly increased and the whiteterminal patch diminished in breadth. 360 PASSE RES. SYLVIlDiE. Hypolais icterina (Vieillot*).THE ICTERINE WARBLER. Sylvia luppolalsA Hypolais, C. L. Brehmt-—Bill stout, very wide at the base, the edgesstraight, somewhat compressed towards the tip, which is slightly basal, oblique, oval and exposed. Wings rather long and pointed, thefirst quill very short, the third usually the longest. Tail moderate, rounded,square or slightly forked. Legs with the tarsi short, the feet small, and theclaws short but much curved. On the occurrence of this addition to the British Fauna,I was favoured by the late Dr. Plomley with the informationthat an example was killed at Eythorne, near Dover, June15th, 1848, the person who shot it having been attractedby its extraordinary loud and melodious song. The specimenis now in the collection of Dr. Scott of Chudleigh, but * Sijlvia icterina, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. dHist. Nat. xi. p. 194 (1817). t Motacilla hippolais (by mistake), Linureus, Syst. Nat. Ed. VI, i, p. 3:30.
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