304 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Biballa in Mossamedes ; at the latter place it is called “ Kikuan- 
diata.”’ 
Mr. W. Atmore informs us that it is not uncommon near Swellen- 
dam, ‘creeping about the decaying fences like our English Hedge- 
sparrow.” Its actions in the trees and bushes reminded us of the 
European Wren: its flight is in short jerks and undulating. The - 
eggs are white, spotted and blotched with brown and faint purple, 
chiefly in the form of a ring at the obtuse end; axis 9’’’; diam. 
6s 
Adult.—General colour above ashy grey, the wing-coverts uniform 
with the back: quills dark brown, externally edged with the same 
ashy grey as the back, the innermost secondaries entirely of the 
latter colour: tail ashy grey, slightly tipped with dull fulyous: lores 
and a tolerably distinct eyebrow light tawny buff: in front of the eye 
a dusky spot: ear-coverts tawny buff with narrow white shaft-lines : 
cheeks and rest of under surface tawny buff, paler on the throat and 
inclining to creamy buff on the centre of the abdomen: thighs deep 
tawny as also the under tail-coverts: under wing-coverts tawny buff: 
“irides yellowish brown ; upper mandible dusky, the under mandible 
a purplish flesh colour, as also are the legs and toes” (Andersson). 
Total length, 3°5 inches ; culmen, 0°6 ; wing, 2°45; tail, 1-0; tarsus, 
0°75. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. pl. 135. 
290. SyLVIA SALICARIA. Garden Warbler. 
The Garden Warbler of Europe appears to make its way, during 
its absence from that continent, to South-western Africa, for it has 
been obtained by Senor Anchieta at Biballa and Huilla in Mossa- 
medes. Mr. Andersson also procured it twice in Damara Land, and 
among the birds discovered after Sir Andrew Smith’s death at his 
house was a skin of a Garden Warbler, bearing the usual ticket 
attached by him to birds obtained during the “ Expedition.” The 
following is a description of the last-named specimen. 
General colour above ashy brown, including the wings and tail: 
lores and a ring of feathers round the eye buffy white: ear-coverts 
brown: cheeks and under surface of body dull whitish, the breast, 
sides of body and thighs brown: under wing-coyerts and axillaries 
light orange buff. Total length, 6 inches; culmen, 0°5 ; wings, 3:1; 
tail, 2°35; tarsus, 0°8. 
Trig. Dresser, B. Eur. part lit. 
