90 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



procui'ed specimens. Wlien disturbed it leaves its shelter very 

 reluctantly, and flits away hurriedly, flying close to the top of 

 the herbage for a short distance, and then it suddenly dips 

 down and is immediately hidden. Nor will it allow itself to 

 be driven far from the place whence it originally started ; but 

 if pursued, prefers to seek shelter by creeping among the 

 stalks of the plants rather than expose itself again by taking 

 wing. On this account the bird is difficult to procure, and 

 is consequently rare in collections. 



Entire plumage glossy ; wing pointed, first primary longest, 

 remainder decreasing in regular order up to the ninth ; tail 

 wedge-shaped ; upper parts uniform olivaceous brown. On 

 the tail, under certain lights, can be seen numerous obsolete 

 bars ; throat and centre of the body white, remainder of the 

 underparts soft creamy brown ; beak dark brown, shading 

 into yellowish flesh-colour towards the base of the lower 

 mandible ; legs brownish flesh-colour ; irides pale brown. 



Entire length 5' 7 inches; culmen 0"5; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 2'7 ; tarsus 0'85. 



Pig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 104. 



38. PsEUDOLTJsciNiA FLUViATiLis (Meyer and Wolf). Eivcr 



Warhler. 



Dr. von Heuglin (Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 293) only quotes 

 Temminck and Bonaparte as his authorities for the occurrence 

 of this Warbler in Egypt. I have never found it, but con- 

 sider it not an unlikely bird to be met with in the Delta. 



Very similar to Pseudoluscinia Inscinioides. Entire upper 

 parts olive-brown ; wings and tail rather less inclining to olive, 

 the latter marked in certain lights with numerous obsolete bars ; 



