62 Mr. E. C. Taylor — Egypt Revisited. 



68. Cyanecula suecica (L.). Bluethroat. 



The Egyptian race is that with the breast-spot red, as in the 

 Scandinavian form, the type of Linnseus^s Motacilla suecica. 

 Common about Cairo in January. 



69. Erythacus rubecula (L.). Red-breast. 

 Occasionally seen, and once shot near Cairo in January. 



70. Philomela luscinta (L.). Nightingale. 

 Occasionally shot, but by no means common. 



71. Aedon galactodes (Temminck). Rufous Warbler. 

 This bird is not by any means a ^'^ Sedge- Warbler^' in its 



habits, as it principally frequents thickets of low brush- wood 

 near the edge of the desert. In such localities I found it abun- 

 dant near the end of March. 



72. Sylvia cinerea, Latham. Common Whitethroat. 



73. Sylvia curruca (Gmelin). Lesser Whitethroat. 

 Both these species were occasionally shot on the Nile in 



March. 



74. Sylvia capistrata, Riippell. Riippell's Warbler.* 

 Not at all uncommon in Upper Egypt, among low bushes in 



the month of March. 



75. Pyrophthalma melanocephala (Gmelin). Sardinian 

 Warbler. 



Perhaps the most abundant of the Warblers in March. This 

 species, as it creeps among thick herbage and low bushes, always 

 reminds me very much of a Marsh Titmouse {Panis palustris). 

 The naked skin round the eye is bright red. 



76. Phyllopneuste trochilus (L.). Willow- Wren. 



77. Phyllopneuste rufa (Latham). ChifF-Chaff. 



Both these species were constantly seen throughout the 

 winter. 



* [The style of coloration in this species, taken together with the very 

 remarkable appearance of its egg, a characteristic among the Sylviidce of 

 some weight, would almost seem to justify its separation from the grouj) 

 of Warblers in which it is usually placed. But this does not seem to have 

 been done hitherto. — Ed.] 



