Sylvia trochilus, Meyer, British Birds, folio Ed., vol. i, pl. 70 (coloured figure of adult and egg) [1835-43]; Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, 2nd Ed., vol. i, pp. 101-102, pl. 28, figs. 3 and 4 (eggs), 1846; id., id., 3rd Ed., vol. i, pp. 137-138, pl. 36, figs. 1 and 2 (eggs), 1856.
Sylvia trochylus, Hewitson, British Oology, 1st Ed., vol. i, 2 pp., pl. 115, 2 figs, (eggs), 1835.
Phyllopneuste trochilus', Macgillivray, British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 371-378, 1839; Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., pl. 65 (coloured figures of adult male and female), 1862.
Phylloscopus trochilus, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., edited by Newton, vol. i, pp. 432-436 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 491-496, pls. 75 and 76 (coloured figures of adults in early summer and autumn plumage), 1879; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 430-434, pl. 10, fig. 10 (egg), 1883; Booth, Bough Notes, vol. ii, pp. 59-61, pl. 5 (coloured figure of adult and northern variety), 1883; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 64, pl. 32 (coloured figure of adult), 1887; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 69-70 (woodcut), 1897.
Croatian, Brezja Zenika; Czechisch, Budnicek vetsi; Dutch, de Fitis; Finnish, Uunilintu; French, Pouillot-fitis; German, Fitis-Laubvogel; Hungarian, Közönséges rendike; Italian, Lui grosso; Norwegian, Löfsanger; Russian, Penotschka; Spanish, Mosquitero, Mosquilla; Swedish, Löfsangare.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE.
Adult Male in Spring.—All the upper parts are greenish olive grey, but the crown and rump are brighter and slightly more olive yellowish green. The flight and tail feathers are brown narrowly edged with the same colour as the upper parts, while the innermost and greater secondaries are broadly edged with this same colour. The bastard wing is brown, and the least wing-coverts the same colour as the back. The superciliary stripe is pale olive yellow, the lores smoky grey,
