SYLVIIDJE. 



5. Athens, 1st Jnne (T. Kruper}. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Athens, 1st June (T. K.}. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Attica, 26th May (T. K.}. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Attica, 1st June (T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Attica, 2nd June (T. K.}. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Smyrna, 22nd May (T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Smyrna, 25th May ( T. K.} . Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Smyrna, 17th June (T. K.}. Seebohm Coll. 



Iduna languid a (Hempr. fy Ehr.). 

 (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Hypolais upcheri, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, pp. 81, 82. 



Hypolais languida, Dresser, Birds Eur. \\. p. 535 (1874) ; Blanford, East. 



Persia, ii. p. 183 (1876) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 80 (1881) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 32 (1899). 

 Iduna languida, Sharpe, Hand-L iv. p. 208 (1903). 



The eggs of Upcher's Tree-Warbler have the ground-colour pale 

 pinkish grey, and are sparingly marked all over with rounded spots 

 and dots of purplish black and faint lavender. The average 

 measurement is '76 by '55. 



9. Palestine, May and June (H. B. Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram). 



3. Palestine, 4th June (H. B. T.}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Jericho, 12th May. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Sisakt, S.W. Persia, 30th May. H. F. Witherby, Esq. [P.]. 



Iduna pallida (Hempr. $ Ehr.}. 



Sylvia elaica, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vb'q. p. 170, tab. xix. fig. 15, a-c 



(1845-54); Bree, Birds Eur. ii. p. 54, pi. (1867). 

 Chloropeta elaeica, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 19. fig. 4 (1855-63). 

 Hypolais elaica, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 82 ; Bree., Birds Eur. 2nd ed. 



ii. p. 145, pi. (1875). 

 Hypolais pallida, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 537 (1874) ; Seebohm, Cat. 



Birds B. M. v. p. 82 (1881) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. 



p. 392 (1889). 

 Iduna pallida, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 208 (1903). 



The eggs of the Olivaceous Tree-Warbler are of a pale pinkish- 

 grey colour, marked in the same manner as those of /. olivetorum. 

 The markings, however, are on the whole rather smaller, and 

 there is a general absence of lines. Measurements vary from 

 64 to *73 in length, and from *47 to '55 in breadth. 



2. Macedonia, 10th June (T. Kruper^. Seebohm Coll. 



6. Nymphion, Greece, 4th June Seebohm Coll. 

 (T.K.). 



2. Athens, 26th May (T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Athens, 1st June (T. K.}. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Athens, 1st June (T. K.}. Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Athens, 1st June (T. K.\ Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Athens, 2nd June (T. K\ Seebohm Coll. 



3. Athens, 8th June (T. K.). Seebohm Coll. 



