. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . olais in describing the ChifF-Chaff, whichhas caused much confusion in the synonomy of thesebirds. 58 Family SYLVIAD^. Genus Sylvia, fLatham.) YIEILLOTS WILLOW WARBLER. Sylvia icterina. Sylvia icterina, Mppolais, Ficedula icterina,Hippolais folyglotta, icterina, (( (C IS tc ViEiiLOT; Nouveau Diet. dHisfc. Nat., tome xi., 1817, Faun. France, j). ; Man., 2nd. Edition, 1835, p. ; Mem. de la Soc. des Sc. de Lille, ; Man., 1820, p. 222, tome Bonapakte; Fauna Italica, pi. 2
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . olais in describing the ChifF-Chaff, whichhas caused much confusion in the synonomy of thesebirds. 58 Family SYLVIAD^. Genus Sylvia, fLatham.) YIEILLOTS WILLOW WARBLER. Sylvia icterina. Sylvia icterina, Mppolais, Ficedula icterina,Hippolais folyglotta, icterina, (( (C IS tc ViEiiLOT; Nouveau Diet. dHisfc. Nat., tome xi., 1817, Faun. France, j). ; Man., 2nd. Edition, 1835, p. ; Mem. de la Soc. des Sc. de Lille, ; Man., 1820, p. 222, tome Bonapakte; Fauna Italica, pi. 28, f. and Blasius; Die Wirbelt: 1840, p. Selys-Longchamps; Faune Beige, Geebe; Eer. ZooL, 1844, p. 440, et 1846, p. 433, et Diet. dHist. Nat., 1848, tome xi., p. Mues; Iconographique Ornitli., Livr X., ; EevueZoolog., ; Ornitii. Europ., 1849. U. -A VIEILLDTs willow AVAllHLEK. 59 Fituvette des Hoseaux, BarroN; PI. Eul., 581. Bec-Jin Iderine, Of the Feench. Becca-Jin Itierino, Of the Italians. Specific Characters.—Above, olive grey; primaries and tail quillsbrown, bordered with olive grey; below, lore, neck, sides, andsuperciliary 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. , 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 whicli it seemsto have undergone, in scientific works, many vicissitudes,—the usual fate of those subjects in natural
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