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tinent it extends far north to Norway,* and even 

 Lapland. | It is also spread over the south of 

 Europe, and there seems rather to diverge to 

 the African Continent, the Azores being given as 

 one locality, while we have received it from 

 Madeira. Temminck gives the Cape of Good 

 Hope and Senegal, and the Zoological Society 

 have specimens frm Trebizond. It is included 

 in the list of Japanese birds, and one specimen 

 has been received from Java,J the only other 

 Asiatic instance. From these various localities, 

 the authorities for which we have every reason to 

 respect, we perceive a very ample and extended 

 range, more so, indeed, than any of the Sylviadae 

 we have either noticed, or have yet to describe. 



The male has the crown arid back of the head, 

 in a line with the eyes, deep black ; the cheeks, 

 sides of the neck and nape, bluish -gray, the 

 remaining upper parts gray, tinged with oil-green, 

 or of a colour very nearly approaching to hair- 

 brown ; the lower parts are grayish-white, darker 

 on the flanks and across the breast, and clearest 

 in the centre of the belly and vent ; legs and feet 

 are bluish-gray or lead colour. The female has 

 the head, where black in the male, of a clear 

 yellowish-brown, reaching rather farther back to 

 the nape ; the cheeks and nape are gray, tinged 

 with greenish, and the upper parts are nearly of 

 the same colour with those of the male ; under- 

 neath, the colour is a yellowish hair-brown, 



* Hewitson. t Nilson. J Temminck. 



