. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . ds resemble their parents in their autumnal dress. The entire length of the Chiff-chaff is four inches and ahalf. The bill measures from the forehead nearly four wing is two inches and a quarter from the carpus to thetip, and the tail extends about nine lines beyond the wingswhen closed; the third and fourth quill feathers of the wingare the longest. The tarsi measure about three quarters ofan inch. The beak is thin, the tip of the upper mandibleslightly notched, the nostrils oval, the gape beset with bristles. 130 SYLVIAD&l
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . ds resemble their parents in their autumnal dress. The entire length of the Chiff-chaff is four inches and ahalf. The bill measures from the forehead nearly four wing is two inches and a quarter from the carpus to thetip, and the tail extends about nine lines beyond the wingswhen closed; the third and fourth quill feathers of the wingare the longest. The tarsi measure about three quarters ofan inch. The beak is thin, the tip of the upper mandibleslightly notched, the nostrils oval, the gape beset with bristles. 130 SYLVIAD<E. The Chiff-chaff is considered by Jcnyns to be the Sylviarufa of Temminch, a species widely dispersed over the Conti-nent of Europe, being found in all the southern countries ofthat quarter of the globe, in some of which, namely Italyand Greece, it remains all the year. Some few are believedto remain in England occasionally through the winter, asthey have been met with in the southern counties at all sea-sons. The egg of the Chiff-chaff is figured
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