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| | OSME - Green Warbler in Saudi Arabia |
 | | However, it lacked white fringes and tips to the tertials, and dark centres to the wing-coverts, and the bill was rather large and not all dark. |
 | | Arctic Warbler P. borealis can also have two wingbars, but the Saudi bird's diminutive (not comparatively bulky) appearance, short bill, supercilia meeting above the bill, dark legs and bright green upperparts are inconsistent with borealis (Bradshaw and Riddington 1997). |
 | | Because of the pronounced greater covert wingbar, distinct upper wingbar, and yellowish tinged head- and neck-sides it was most likely Two-barred Greenish Warbler P. plumbeitarsus or Green Warbler P. nitidus (Baker 1997), both of which are variably treated as conspecific with, or specifically distinct from, P. trochiloides (see, e.g. |
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