ORPHEAN WARBLER 



PLATE CXXII. 



Sylvia orphea> 

 Sylvia grisea, 

 Curruca orphea, . 



TEMMINCK. 



VlEILLOT. 



GOULD. 



AN accidental visitor to this country. A specimen bird 

 was shot on the 6th of July 1848, in a small plan- 

 tation near Wetherby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 

 and preserved by Mr. Graham of York. It was a female, 

 and appeared to have been sitting the same summer : the 

 male bird was also observed with it for a considerable 

 time previously. An account of this interesting occurrence 

 was published in the Zoologist. 



The Orphean Warbler builds sometimes in low bushes, 

 such as tamarisks, and in young cork trees, often in com- 

 pany with others of the same species. The nest is composed 

 of small twigs, leaves, and long grass, interwoven with 

 horse-hair, and lined with the down of cotton-grass. 



The eggs are four or five in number, greyish white, 

 irregularly marked with brown spots of various shades, 

 chiefly at the larger end. 



