. 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
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. 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, co.Dublin; 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 extensive.Eastward, 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,