80 irRDiD^. 



Ficedula olivetorum (Strk-kL), ScJtleq. Bijd. tot de Dierk. Amsterd. 



folio i. p. 27 (1848) ; Newton, Lid B. Eur. Blasius, p. 11 (1862) j 



Doderl. Avif. SicU. p. 131 (1809). 

 Calamodyta olivetorum (Strickl.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848). 

 Chloropeta olivetorum (Stricld.), Locke, E.ipl. Sot. Alger., Ois. i. 

 .p. 269 (1867;. 



In the adidt male in spring plumage ih.e general colour of the 

 upper parts, induding the lores, ear-covert3, and the sides of the 

 neck, is browDish-grey slighth' tinged with olive, especially on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; a very indistinct eye-stripe extends 

 from the base of the bill, but can rarely be traced behind the eye ; 

 the quills are brown, narrowly tipped and edged with greyish white ; 

 the wing-coverts and innermost secondaries are more broadly edged 

 with greyer white ; tail-feathers brown, the outer feathers with 

 broad and tolerably well-defined greyish-white margins broadest at 

 the tip, gradually diminishing on the succeeding feathers until they 

 are lost entirely on the two centre ones ; very indistinct traces of 

 transverse bars generally observable on the tail-feathers. The 

 underparts are pale huffish white, shading into nearly pure white 

 on the chin, throat, and the centre of the belly, and into pale grey 

 on the Hanks ; axilhiries, under wing-coverts, and thighs huffish 

 ■white, shading into pale-grey on the centres of the feathers ; inner 

 margin of quills very pale buff. Bill Acrocephaline ; upper mandible 

 dark brown, under mandible pale horn-colour ; rictal bristles 

 small. Wing with the third primary longest, and the second inter- 

 mediate in length between the fourth and fifth, in rare instances 

 equal to the fourth ; bastard primary very narrow and pointed, 

 falling short of the primary-coverts by 0-2 to 0-25 inch. Legs, feet, 

 and claws dark bluish grey. Length of wing 3-45 to 3-3 inches, tail 

 2-75 to 2-6, culmen 0-78 to 0-7. tarsus 0-95 to O'So ; ontside tail- 

 feathers O-lo to U-2 shoiter than the longest. 



The female scarcely differs from the male. After the autumn moult 

 the general crdour of the underparts is greyer. Birds of the year 

 scai-celv differ from adults in autumn plumage. 



The Olive Tree-"\Varbler is a late summe:r migrant to Greece, Asia 

 Minor, and Palestine. It also breeds in Algeria. Its winter 

 quarters are unknown ; but a solitary example has been obtained in 

 Egvpt, and a second in Abyssinia, whence we may infer that they 

 are somewhere in Central Africa. 



a. c? ad. sk. Smvma, Julv 10 (2);-. ZivV/jer). R.B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b. 2ad.sk. Smyrna, May 13 (D/-. ZiM/je?-)- E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. Juv. sk. Smyrna, July 5 {Dr. Kriiper). E. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Greece. M. Parzudaki [C.]. 



4. Hypolais lan^da. 



Curruca languida, Hempr. et Ehr. Si/mb. P/ii/s., Aves, fol. cc (1833). 

 Salicaria lauguida {^Hempr. et Ehr.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eiir.T^. liv 



(1840). 

 Hvpolais languida (Hempr. et Ehr.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 37 (1850) ; 



'Heugl. Orn. N. O.-Afr. i. p. 296 (1869) ; Blanf. Geol. S[ Zool. Abyss. 



