. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . bird by Mr. Morris, in the third volume of hisHistory of British Birds. Yarrell, Pennant, Selby,Jenyns, and Gould unfortunately adopted the specificname of /wjo/jo/cws in describing the Chifi-Chafi, whichhas caused much confusion in the synonomy of thesebirds. e58 INSECTIVOEJE. Family SYL VIABLE. Genus Sylvia. VIEILLOTS WILLOW WAKBLEE. salvia icterina, Jdppolaia, Ficedula icterina,Hippolais polyglotta, icterina, Sylvia icterina. YiEiLLOT; Nouveau Diet. ]Sat., tome xi., 1817, Fauu. France, p. ;
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . bird by Mr. Morris, in the third volume of hisHistory of British Birds. Yarrell, Pennant, Selby,Jenyns, and Gould unfortunately adopted the specificname of /wjo/jo/cws in describing the Chifi-Chafi, whichhas caused much confusion in the synonomy of thesebirds. e58 INSECTIVOEJE. Family SYL VIABLE. Genus Sylvia. VIEILLOTS WILLOW WAKBLEE. salvia icterina, Jdppolaia, Ficedula icterina,Hippolais polyglotta, icterina, Sylvia icterina. YiEiLLOT; Nouveau Diet. ]Sat., tome xi., 1817, Fauu. France, p. ; Man., 2nd. Edition, 1835, p. ; Mem. de la Soc. des So. de Lille, ; Man., 1820, p. 222, tome Bonapaete; Fauna Italiea, pi. 28, f. and Blasids; Die Wirbelt: 1840, p. 56. ?De Selys-Longchamps; Fauna Beige, Geebe; Eev. ZooL, 1844, p. 440, et 1846, p. 433, et Diet. dHist. Nat., 1848, tome xi., p. Mixes; Iconograpliiqiie Ornitli., Livr X., ; Kevue Zoolog., £GLA^p; Oimlh. Europ., vteillots willow warbler. 59 Fauvette des Roseaux, Buffon; PI. Enl., 581. Bee-fin Icterine, Of the French. Becca-fin Itterino, Of the Italians. Specific Characters.—Above, olive grey; primaries and tail quillsbrown, bordei-ed with olive grey; below, lore, neck, sides, andsaperciliary ridge yellow. Wings in repose reach to middle oftail; first primary rather longer than the fourth, and nearly equalto (but still longer than) the third, the second longest. Dimensions.—Mean of fifteen individuals measured by M. Z,Gerbe, reduced to English measurements:—Total length, from tipof beak to end of tail, inches; from carpus to tip one inch; beak from point to origin inches; maximumdepth (hauteur) of beak, inches; maximum breadth of same, inches. This bird was first described as a new species byVieillot, in 1817, for some time after whicb it seemsto have undergone in scientific works
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