WARBLERS. 



501 



The parent birds that lay these very different looking eggs certainly do not differ; 

 of this I have positively satisfied myself." The tailor itself is a small bird of warbler 

 size, with a graduated tail, and the central pair of rcctrices considerably lengthened 

 beyond the others, in the male ; it is olive-green above, with the crown of the head 

 pale brick-red, while the whole under surface is yellowish-white. 



We have now arrived at the true Old WoiJd warblers (Sylviiiup), the most prorni- 





FIG. 246. Locustellafluviatilif!, L. inevia, and L. liiscinioitles, European grasshopper warblers. 



nent European representatives of which are found delineated in the cut already 

 referred to under Cisticola, as well as in the two following ones and one on the plate 

 facing p. 496. All of them are dull-colored, gray or brownish, and we shall therefore 

 dispense with any description of their appearance, reserving the space for a few 

 remarks on their most salient peculiarities. 



Cettia cetti, the upper figure on page 500, belongs to a group of wai'blers charac- 

 terized by having only ten tail-feathers. They are chiefly central Asiatic, but the 

 species in question inhabits the Mediterranean region. 



