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to fly, from which I secured some interesting specimens. They 

 differ from the old ones in being a much paler brown all over, 

 their irides and legs the same colour ; in adult birds the irides 

 are a yellow-brown, the legs a light orange-yellow. 



M. sardus can always be easily distinguished, even when 

 flying, from all other Warblers, by its uniform dark dusky 

 colour, and more especially from C. melanocephala (with which 

 Dr. Bree seems to think it may be confounded), not only 

 by its smaller size, but by the almost entire absence of the 

 white edgings on the outer tail-feathers, which the latter shows 

 very conspicuously when flying. 



Dr. Salvadori, in his late work on the birds of Italy, men- 

 tions Corsica and Sicily as localities where this bird is found. 



87. Melizophilus provincialis. 



Common in the low hills covered with cistus, heather, &c, 

 but not so numerous as the last species. It is a good deal 

 smaller than M. sardus. 



88. Regulus ignicapillus. 



Very common in the ilex forests on the range of mountains 

 south of Villacidro, in which localities I saw them during the 

 months of May and June. A very young bird shot on the 

 29th of May showed already, strongly, the white striping on 

 the face. 



89. Regulus cristatus. 



I never saw one. Both Cara and Salvadori agree in say- 

 ing it is commoner in the north than in the south of the island. 



I cannot say I have ever been able to detect any per- 

 ceptible difference between the notes of this bird and the pre- 

 ceding species, though on many previous occasions I have 

 listened attentively to the two species singing simultaneously. 



90. Phyllopneuste rufa. 



Common. I think a few remain during winter, as I have 

 seen them in February and March. 



91. Phyllopneuste sylvicola. 



Common, arriving in spring, when they frequent the or- 

 chards and olive-groves. 



