BUPPELL'S WABBLEB. 119 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Famihj SYLVIID^. 



Genus Sylvia. (Latham.) 



RUPPELL'S WARBLER. 



Sylvia riippellii. 



Sylvia riippeUn, Temminck; Manual, 1835. 



" " Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 



" " ScHiNz; Europ. Fauna, 1840. 



" " Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 



Sylvia capisirata, Ruppell; Atlas, pi. 19. 



Curruca riippellii, Bonaparte, 1838. 



Gerbe; Diet., 1848. 



Bec-jin Ruppell, Of the French. 



RiippelVs Sanger or GrasmUcke, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Above ash grey; tail black, the outermost .quill 

 feather clear white; on the two following, the tip and a wedge-shaped spot 

 on the inner web, white; on the fourth and fifth also a small white spot 

 on the tip. Length about five inches and a half. — M&hle. 



This Warbler is an Asiatic species, inhabiting especially the borders 

 of the E,ed Sea and the Nile. It was introduced into the European 

 fauna by Temminck in the last edition of his "Manual" in 1835. Its 

 European locality has hitherto been confined to Greece, where it was 

 observed, though rarely, by Count Mtihle. According to Lindermayer 

 it occurs in the bushy ravines of the Attic mountain range, but 

 Count Miihle found it only in the Morea. The single specimen he 

 captured, he informs us, was "sitting on the outstretching branch of a 

 bush in the hollow of a rocky ravine." 



