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Danish, Grönsanger; Dutch, Fluiter; French, Bec-fin siffleur; German, Wald-Laubvogel; Hungarian, Zöld Rendike; Italian, Lui verde; Russian, Pienka; Spanish, Mosqueta; Swedish, Gronsångare.

Adult Male in Spring.— The upper parts generally are greenish yellow, slightly more greyish on the back but more yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts. The superciliary stripe is bright yellow, lores and upper ear-coverts grey forming a dark streak through the eye, sides of the head and neck olive yellow becoming pure light yellow on the throat and crop, and the rest of the underparts pure white, the flanks being washed with a faint olive yellow. The wings are rather dark greyish brown, the outer edges of the innermost secondaries being broadly edged with light greyish yellow, while the rest of the flight feathers are narrowly edged with the same colour as the back. The secondary coverts are broadly edged with