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Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ICTERINE WARBLER. . l8l Most of the recorded visits of this bird have been in Sep-tember or August, and until more evidence of nesting is forth-coming it must be looked upon as an occasional autumnal birdof passage, which may be distinguished from the Sedge-Warblerby the central buff streak on its crown, its buffer eye-stripe,pale cheeks, striated rump and stronger striations on its back.Length, 4*9 ins. Wing, 2*4 ins. Tarsus, 8 in. Raddes Bush-Warbler. Lusci7iwla sckwarzi (Radde). A single example of this eastern Siberian bird was shot byMr. Caton Haigh in Lincolnshire in 1898 ; as its winter quartersare in southern China and Burmah, it can only be looked uponas a lost wanderer. It is a small olive-backed warbler, with abuff eye-stripe which bends round the cheeks to the nape.Length, 5 ins. Wing, 2*45 ins. Tarsus, 9 in. Moustached Warbler. Luscmiola viekmopogon(Temm.). The Moustached Warbler is a south European and northAfrican bird which was added to the British list in 1915, on the

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