92 BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



©rpbcau Marbler. 



The Orphean Warbler {Sylvia orphea, Temminck) is a very 

 rare irregular spring migrant to the British Islands. It 

 nests throughout the whole of Central and Southern 

 Europe and Northern Africa. The adult male has the 

 general colour of the upper parts slate-grey, with a brown 

 tinge; wings and tail, brown, broadly margined with ashy; 

 outermost tail-feathers, white on outer webs; head, lores, and 

 ear-coverts, blackish; cheeks, throat, and remainder of 

 under parts, white, tinged on breast and flanks with huffish; 

 under tail-coverts, buff; irides, pale yellow; bill, blackish, 

 base beneath, paler; legs and feet, dark brown. Length, 

 about six inches. The adult female is similar to the male, 

 but the colour of the plumage is duller. The young resemble 

 the female. 



