OLIVACEOUS WABBLE B. 145 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Family SYLVIIDJE. 



Genus Hypolais. f Brehm.J 



OLIVACEOUS WARBLER. 



Hypolais elaica. 



Hippolais elaetca, Z. Gerbe; Revue Zool., 1844, p. 440, 



1846, p. 434; Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 1848, 

 tome XI., p. 237. 

 " " Degland, 1849. 



Salicaria elaeica, Lindermayer ; Isis, 1845, No. 5, p. 242 ; 



Revue Zool., 1843, p. 210. 

 Ficedula ambigua, Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 



Sylvia elaica, MtJHLE, 1856. Bree, ist. Edition. 



Bee-fin Ambigu, Of the French. 



Oelbaum Spotter, or 

 Zweideniiger Laiihsdnger, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Plumage above shaded with greyish; wings in repose 

 reach scarcely to middle of tail ; first primary short, longer than the upper 

 coverts, second and fifth equal, third and fourth longest, and equal. 



Dimensions of tivo specimens sent me by M. E. Verreatcx. — One from Greece: 

 from tip of beak to end of tail, five inches; length of beak seven-tenths of 

 an inch ; breadth at base three-tenths of an inch ; wing, from carpus to tip, 

 two inches and a half; tarsus four-fifths of an inch; tail two inches. One 

 from Algeria: from tip of beak to end of tail, five inches and a half; wing 

 from carpus to tip, two inches and seven-tenths; tarsus nine-tenths of an 

 inch; tail two inches and three-tenths. 



This is the second Warbler peculiar to the olive groves of classic 

 Greece, that has been made known to science within the last twenty 

 or twenty-five years. Strickland's discovery of the bird last described 



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