no BIEDS or EGYPT. 



with in Egypt, ])ut does not remain there throughout the 

 winter. I myself never found it ; and as Von HeugHu does 

 not inchide it among the birds of North-east Africa, I insert 

 it here with some hesitation, although one might well expect 

 to meet with it in the country. 



Male. — Top of the head, cheeks, and lower part of the 

 throat fine ash-colour ; space between the eye and the beak 

 black, whence a circle of the same colour surrounds the white 

 of the eyes ; back and scapulars vinous ash-colour ; the wings 

 blackish, broadly edged with rufous ; throat white ; under 

 sm-face of the body white, tinged with vinous, which passes 

 into reddish on the flanks ; tail brownish black, except the 

 outer feathers, which are nearly white, whUe the second and 

 third are also tipped with that colour ; beak brown, shading 

 into yellowish flesh-colour on the basal half of the lower man- 

 dible ; legs yellowish flesh-colour ; irides pale brown. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but paler, and the circle 

 round the eye hardly apparent, if, indeed, at all distinguishable. 



Entu:e length 5 inches ; culmen 0-4 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 1-3; tarsus O'?. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pk 126. 



66. Sylvia curruca (Linn.). Lesser Whitethroat. 



This is a very abundant Warbler throughout Egj'pt and 

 Nubia, frequenting the low sont and tamarisk bushes, 

 where it may be seen flitting in and out among the thick 

 covert, actively pursuing the small insects upon which it 

 feeds. 



TVinter plumage. — Upper parts ashy brown, inclining to 

 o-rey on the head and ear-coverts ; underparts white, tinged 



