WARBLERS. 



501 



The jiarent liirds that lay these very different looking eggs certainly do not diffur ; 

 of this I have positively satisfied myself.'''' Tiie tailor itself is a small bird of warbler 

 size, with a graduated tail, and the central pair of rectrices considerably lengthened 

 beyond the others, in the male ; it is olive-green above, with the crown of the head 

 pale brick-red, while the whole under surface is yellowish-white. 



We have now arrived at the true Old Woild warblers (Sylviinw), the most promi- 



x/'.:,rt;,wn:r. 



Fio. 246. — Locuslelia jliirtatiUn, L. uavia, niiii /.. tuscijiioi*h\<, Europcau grasshopper warblers. 



nent Europcm representatives of which are fi>unil delinente<l in the cut already 

 referred to under CiMicohi, as well as in the two following ones and one on the plate 

 facing p. 496. All of them are dull-colored, gray or Inownish, and we shall therefore 

 dispense with any descri])tion of their ap]ieMrance, reserving the space f«>r a few 

 remarks on their most salient peculiarities. 



("ettia cetli, the u])per figure on j>age 500, belongs to a grou]> of warblers charac- 

 terized by having only ten tail-feathers. They are chiefly central Asiatic, but the 

 speciea in question inhabits the Mediterranean region. 



