Crossword-Solution: ICTERINE 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

And the rarer ones--the grey shrike, that buzzard of the cliff (the most perilous scramble of all my life), the crested titmouse, the serin finch on the apple tree, that first icterine warbler whose five eggs, blotched with purple and quite unfamiliar at the time, gave me such a thrill of joy that I nearly lost my foothold on the swerving alder branch---- At this point, my meditations were suddenly interrupted by a vigorous grunt or snort; a snort that would have done credit to an enraged tapir.

Thus in every imaginable way they expose themselves and invite attack; yet, in spite of it all, I have never detected birds preying on them, and I have sometimes kept one of these black societies under observation near my house for several days, watching them at intervals, in places where the trees overhead were the resort of Icterine and tyrant birds, Guira cuckoos, and other species, all great hunters after grasshoppers.

Here it is we find it, for observation shows that eggs of the cuckoo deposited in nests of the red-backed shrike (_Lanius collurio_), of the bunting (_Emberiza miliaria_), and of the icterine warbler approximate in their colouring to eggs of those species--species in whose nests the cuckoo rarely (in comparison with others) deposits eggs.

THE ICTERINE WARBLER Hypolais icterina (Vieillot) This fairly common European bird is only a rare visitor to our southern and eastern shores, and has once been taken in Ireland.

The Yellow-billed Chiff-chaff—or Icterine Warbler, as it should now be called[8]—however, forms an exception to the rule, as will be seen later.