206 BTLVIIDJE. 



•I. Athens, 1st Juno (T. Eriiper). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Athens, ls1 June ( T. A'.). Seebolim Coll. 



3. Attica. 26th May ( T. A'.). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Attica, Lsl June ( T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Attica, 2ndJune {T. E.). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Smyrna, 22nd May {T. E.). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Smyrna, 25th -May ( T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Smyrna, 17th June ( T. E.). Seebohm Coll. 



Iduna languida (Hempr. Sf Ehr.). 



(Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Hypolais upcheri, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, pp. 81, 82. 



Hypolais languida, Dresser, Birds Eur.u. p. 535 (1874) ; Blanford, East. 



Persia, ii. p. 183 (1876) : Seebohm, Cut. Birds B. M. v. p. 80 (1881) ; 



Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 32 (1899). 

 Iduna languida, Sharpe, lland-l. iv. p. 208 (1903). 



The eggs of Upcher's Tree-Warbler have the ground-colour pale 

 pinkish grey, and are sparingly marked all over with rounded spots 

 and dots of purplish Mack and faint lavender. The average 

 measurement is "7b' by "55. 



9. Palestine, May and June (H. B. Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram). 



3. Palestine, 4th June (II. B. T.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Jericho, 12th May. Crowlev Bequest. 



3. Sisakt, S.W. Persia, 30th May. H. F. Witherby, Esq. [P.]. 



Iduna pallida (ffempr. Sf Ehr.). 



Sylvia elaica, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 170, tab. xix. fig. lo, a-c 



(1845-54); Bree, Birds Eur. ii. p. 54, pi. (1867). 

 Chloropeta elaeica, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 19. fig. 4 (1855-63). 

 Hypolais elaica, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, ]>. 82; Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. 



ii. p. 145, pi. (1875). 

 Hypolais pallida, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 537 (1874); Seebohm, Cat. 



Birds B.M. v. p. 82 (1881); Oates, Fauna Brit. hid.. Birds, i. 



p. 392 (1889). 

 Iduna pallida, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 208 (1903). 



The eggs of the Olivaceous Tree-Warbler are of a pale pinkish- 

 grey colour, marked in the same manner as those of /. olivetorum. 

 The markings, however, are on the whole rather smaller, and 

 there is a general absence of lines. Measurements vary from 

 •04 to "73 in length, and from -47 to '55 in breadth. 



2. Macedonia, 10th June (T. Eriiper). Seebohm Coll. 



G. Nymphion, Greece, 4th June Seebohm Coll. 



(T.E.). 



2. Athens, 26th May ( T. K. i. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Athens, 1st June (T. A'.). S.-rbolmi Coll. 



5. Athens, 1st June I /'. A'.). Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Athens, 1st June (T. E.). Seebohm Coll. 

 -J. Athens, 2nd June (T. K). Seebohm Coll. 

 .;. Athens, 8th June (T. E.). Seebohm Coll. 



