88 SYLVIID^. 
ten among the flowers and trees on the Alameda de Apodaca at 
Cadiz ; they were exceedingly tame^ and I watched them for along 
time hopping about in and out among the flowei^s like a common 
Wren. One or two were very bright-coloured males. I also 
saw this Warbler on the 25th of April, 1869, in the Goto del 
Rey. Lord Lilford informs me he found a nest early in May, 
built in a gum-cistus bush in the Goto del Donaiia, the eggs 
being very hard sat-on. 
I shot one on the 3rd of May, which evidently had a nest, 
though after spending some hours looking for it, I was unsuc- 
cessful in finding it. 
I never had the good fortune to discover a nest ; but they 
are said to build much in the same manner and situations as 
S. melanocephala, the eggs being also very similar to those of 
that bird. 
This species is very apt to be confounded when flying and 
liopping about with Melizophilus undatus; but the length of the 
tail, shorter in proportion, distinguishes it from that bird. 
94. Melizophilus undatus (Bodd.). The Dartford 
Warbler. 
Spanish. Golorin, Caganchina. 
" Is resident but not abundant near Tangier. Some mi- 
grate to Europe in March, to return in August. It is solitary 
in habits. They make a clumsy nest of grass and roots, lined 
with very fine coils of palmetto-fibre, laying in April.'^ — Favier. 
The Dartford Warbler is resident and not uncommon in all 
the scrub-covered hills on the coast near Gibraltar, particularly 
about San Roque, but is most abundant during the breeding- 
season on the sides of the sierras, nesting in the heather about 
the 8th of April, on which date Mr. Stark found a nest near 
Algeciraz with three eggs. There is no doubt they nest at Gib- 
raltar, as they occasionally remain there through the summer. 
95. Phylloscopus siBiLATRix, Bechst. The Wood- Warbler. 
This species is not mentioned by Favier as occurring near 
Tangier, where, however, it is found, though not commonly. 
On the Spanish side of the Straits it is the scarcest of the 
four species of Phylloscopus. It was first seen on the 22nd 
