BIEDS or EGYPT. Ill 



with very pale brown ; wings and tail dark brown, the feathers 

 narrowly edged with ashy brown ; the outer feathers on each 

 side of the tail nearly white. 



In summer the head and ear-coverts are slaty grey ; beak 

 nearly black, inclining to lead-colovu' at the base of the lower 

 mandible ; legs dark slate-colour ; irides hazel. 



Entire length 5-3 inches ; culmen 0-35 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 27 ; spurious primary 0-6 ; tarsus 0*8. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 125. 



67. Sylvia cinerea, Bechst. IFJdtethroat. 



I have shot this species both in Egypt and Nubia, but it 

 is by no means common in either country. It frequents the 

 young sont and other trees which afford thick covert near the 

 ground, especially where they grow in rows along the em- 

 bankments. 



In hreeding-flumage the upper part of the head, nape, and 

 ear-coverts are slate-coloured, tinged with brown, while in 

 winter the whole of the upper parts are cindery brown, tinted 

 with rufous on the forehead and back; wings and tail- 

 feathers dusky, edged with pale brown ; secondaries more 

 broadly edged with rufous ; the underparts, in winter, are 

 white, tinted with pale yellowish brown, especially on the 

 flanks; while in summer plumage there is a delicate pink 

 blush on the chest, which soon fades after death ; beak brown 

 above, changing to yellow at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 legs pale brown ; irides hazel. 



Eutue length 5' 5 inches ; culmen 0'35 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 2'8 ; spurioiis primary 0*4 ; tarsus O'S. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 125. 



