140 ' MAEMOBA'8 WABBLE B. 



Doderlln ("Avifauna del Modenese e della Sicilia,") says of this 

 bird: — "That this Warbler is rare in the northern provinces of Sicily 

 Benoit attests also. It arrives from Africa in April and May, and 

 Iceeps on the shores of the sea, among the bushes, and goes away 

 again in the autumn. It is rather more common in the southern 

 provinces. In November, 1864, a few sjjecimens were met with on 

 the hill near Mazzare, and others were killed during the autumn of 

 1870 in the neighbourhood of Vittoria, and in Terra Nova, where 

 Malhcrbe as well as myself agree that they nest in the summer. 

 According to Salvadori, this is the most common species of Sylvia in 

 Sardinia." 



An adult male, sent me by M. E. Verreaux, has all the upper 

 parts of a uniform smoky brown, darker about the eyes. Throat 

 dark ash-grey; belly and flanks pinkish, mottled with grey, approaching 

 to black; primaries dark hair brown; tail cuneiform, with the outer 

 quills finely edged with white; colour of the under parts of the tail 

 lighter; beak yellow, black for one third from the point; border 

 round the eyes cinnabar red; iris nut brown; feet yellow. 



The female is generally paler in colour than the male, and the 

 throat and belly more ash-coloured. 



Figured by Temminck and Laugier, pi. enl. 24, f. 2, adult male; 

 Gould, B. of E.; Dresser, B. of E. 



