. An illustrated manual of British birds . ded tail; whence its Spanishnames of Alza-cola, and Alza-rabo. I have not found it to beat all shy, until it becomes conscious of being watched and followed :a proceeding which it naturally resents, as do most birds. Theoriginal English name of Rufous Sedge Warbler is remarkably inap-propriate, as the bird is never seen in sedges, and is rather partial toarid places. Its food consists of insects. The song is said toresemble that of the Redbreast. Adult male : upper parts chestnut-brown; a broad whitish streakabove the eye to the nape ; quills brown wi
. An illustrated manual of British birds . ded tail; whence its Spanishnames of Alza-cola, and Alza-rabo. I have not found it to beat all shy, until it becomes conscious of being watched and followed :a proceeding which it naturally resents, as do most birds. Theoriginal English name of Rufous Sedge Warbler is remarkably inap-propriate, as the bird is never seen in sedges, and is rather partial toarid places. Its food consists of insects. The song is said toresemble that of the Redbreast. Adult male : upper parts chestnut-brown; a broad whitish streakabove the eye to the nape ; quills brown with reddish-buff margins ;tail rich chestnut with a narrow blackish terminal band on the twocentral feathers, and a broad sub-terminal black band with increas-ingly large white tips from the centre to the outer feathers ; underparts sandy-white, deeper on the breast and flanks ; bill, legs and feetbrown. Length 675 in. ; wing to the end of the 3rd and longestquill 35 in. The female is slightly, if at all, paler than the male. SYLVIIN.^. 69. THE ICTERINE WARBLER. Hypolais icterina (Vieillot). Although common on the Continent, even within sight of ourown shores, this member of a well-marked genus not remotely alliedto the group of Reed-Warblers is only a very rare straggler to theBritish Islands. The first example was killed on June 15th 1S48,at Eythorne, near Dover; a second (now in the Dublin Museum),on June 8th 1856, at Dunsinea on the banks of the Tolka, ; and a third was shot by Mr. F. D. Power on Septembernth 1884, near Blakeney, Norfolk. All three examples have beenexamined and identified by competent authorities ; the significanceof which will be apparent hereafter. In Norway the Icterine Warbler reaches the Arctic circle, althoughin Sweden, Finland and Russia, its northern range is less , the Ural and the valley of the Tobol form its knownlimits, and further south it has been obtained at Lenkoran on thewestern side of the Caspian, In Asia Minor,
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