14 TURDID^. 



Sylvia orpheus and Sylvia jerdoni. 



European examples of this species, with tGe culmen varj-ing from 

 0-68 to 0-(J inch, are very distinct from the liidiuu, Turkestan, and 

 Persian form, with the culmen varying from 0-76 to 0-iiii, and 

 might possibly be considered distinct species, were it not for the 

 fact that examples from Asia Minor and Palestine are inrennediate, 

 with the culmen varying from 0-7-1 to 0-04. "\Ve must therefore 

 admit that the difference between the two forms is only a sul)specific 

 one, being completely bridged over by examples from intermediate 

 localities. 



The synonymy of the Western and intermediate forms is as 

 follows : — 



5. Sylvia orpheus. 



Sylvia orpheus, Temm* 



?La Fauvette, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 372(1700); Bi'ffon, ITisL Nat. Ois. 



V. p. 117 (1778); Dauhent. PL Enl. o79. lig. 1 (1778). 

 La petite Colombaude, Buff. Hist. Not. Ois. v. p. 131 (1778). 

 MotHcilla bippolais, Linn, apud Bodd. Tahl. des PI. Enl. p. 35 (1783). 

 ? Pettychaps {e.icl. variett/), Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. 2, p. 413 (1783). 

 Blackcap, var. B, Lath. Gen. iSi/n. ii. pt. 2, p. 410 (1783). 

 ? Motaeilla horteiisis, Gniel. Si/st. Nat. i. p. iJoo (^176S. partitti). 

 ? Svlvia Lortensis {Gmel.'), {c.vcl. var. /3), Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 507 



(179J). 

 Sylvia atricapilla (Linn.), var. y, Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. oOO (1790). 

 Sylvia orphea, Tfjnm. Man. d'Orn. p. 107 (18 lo) ; id. Man. 



dOrn. i. p. 198 (1820) ; Meyer, 7\ischeiih. Zus. u. Ber. p. 80 (1822) ; 



Naum. Vol/. Leutschl. ii. p. 445 (1822j ; C'respon, Orn. Gard. 



p. 126 (1840) ; Keys. u. Bias. IVirh. Eur. p. 187 (1840) ; Nordm. 



Demid. Vcy. Ems. merid. iii. p. 148 (1840); Werner, Atlas, Insectiv. 



pi. 37 (1842); Selys-Lonych. Faun. Bclg. p.9ii (1842) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 174 (1848) ; Cab. Mas. Ilein. i. p. 30 (1850) ; Lmdenn. 



Toy. Griechenl. p. 101 (180J) ; Uvuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr.i. p. 300 



(1809); Duderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 120 (1869); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 214. no. 3021 (1809) ; Salmid. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 100 (1871) ; 



Neiot. ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 423 ( 1873) ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxx. 



(1874); Lhy, B. Gibr. p. 85 (1875). 

 Svlvia giistja, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 188 (1817) ; VieiU. 



'Faune Fra7ig. i. p. 209 (1820) ; Eou.r, Orn. Prov. p. 328 (1825). 

 CuiTuca orphea {Temm.), Boie, Lsis, 1822, p. 553; Gould, B. Eur. 



ii. pi. 119 (1837) ; Bp. CUnp. List B. Eur. ^- N Amer. p. 14 



(1838) : Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 294 (18-";0) ; Janh. et Barth.-Lapomm. 



Bich. Orn. p. 241 (1859) ; Di-yl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 479 



(1807) ; Lochc, Ejpl. Sci. Alycr., Ois. i. p. 238 (1807) : Shelley, B. 



Egypt, p. 104 (1872) ; Gould, B. Gt. B. ii. pi. Ixi. (1873). 



* The cii'cuinstantial evidence in favour of the opinion that " La Fauvette " of 

 Brisson, Buffon, and Daubenton (upon which Gmeliu founded his Motaeilla 

 hortoisif) is the female of the Orphean Warbler is very strong. It is not, how- 

 ever, apparently strong enough to induce even the strictest adherents to the 

 StrickLmdian code to transfer Gmelin'e name to this species. ^^ e may there- 

 fore ignore the name altogether, and adopt Tenimiuck's name for the Orphean 

 Warbler, leaving also the coast clear for Bechstein's Mutacilla korfensis to be 

 applied to the Garden Warbler. {Conf. Seebohm, ' Ibis,' 1879, p. 310.) 



