156 Commander H. Lynes on a 



Egypt. — Many pass through. Dates much as for the 

 Lesser Whitethroat^ but the bird was not quite so plentiful 

 or so tame as that species. 



Crete and Athens. — First arrivals 29tb March. Abundant 

 by 7tli April, after which the species decreased, though still 

 passing 28tli April. 



Thaso. — Very abundant on migration, 17tli August. 



Lemnos. — Plentiful on migration, 20th August-6th Sep- 

 tember. 



Malta. — Plentiful on migration. 



Sylvia curruca curruca (L,). 



The Lesser Whitethroat was met with as a migrant only. 



Etji/pt. — Already migrating abundantly on 23rd August, 

 it continued to do so till 20th October, after whicli none 

 Avere observed. Numbers fluctuated more, day by day, in 

 October, than in the earlier part of the passage. These 

 birds were very tame, and even fatter than most others. 



Crete. — Only a few seen, first on 29th March, last observed 

 on 2oth April. 



Cyprus. — x\ small party on migration seen 11th October. 



Malta. — The only record was an adult female obtained on 

 5th August, with minute ovaries. This was thought to be a 

 stray or lost bird, perhaps disabled during the previous spring 

 migration, as no other migrants were passing so early. 



The stomach contained seeds, and the whole intestine was 

 choked with half-digested hard seeds. 



Sylvia rueppelli Temm. 



Except for two migrating adult males (one obtained) seen 

 at Port Said on 10th September, Rueppell's Warbler was 

 only met with at Crete and Athens during the spring. It 

 was not found at Platea at the end of July, but may have 

 been overlooked. At Crete it was an abundant summer 

 visitor. The first to arrive were the males, starting on the 

 24'th March and increasing daily until the first females came 

 ten days later, when the birds at once paired. The males 

 sang directly they arrived (before the females came) and also 

 seemed to separate each into its oatu selected breeding-site 



