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depressed and broader (Hypolais megarhyncha, Brehm). Between H. eleica and H. 
pallida I cannot find a real difference; the colouring varies between a greyish- and 
pale brownish-olive; in the shape of the bill there are also slight differences. I have 
compared specimens from Algiers and Dalmatia—the latter, collected in the neighbour- 
hood of Cattaro, being the type of Sylvia preglit, Frauenfeld. 
Whether Curruca pallida, Hempr. & Ehrb., from Egypt and Nubia, is this species or 
Calamoherpe arundinacea, one cannot say, because the description given by Hemprich 
and Ehrenberg (Symb. Phys. 1828, fol. bb) is too short to recognize the species exactly. 
—0. F. 
[Only met with at Gelamet and Rairo.— VW. J.] 
62. HypoLais OLIVEToRUM (Strickl.). 
Temm. Man. d’Orn. iv. p. 611; Gould, B. of Eur. pl. 109. 
Salicaria olivetorum, Schleg. Rev. Crit. p. 56. 
3. Amba. 21st August. 
Apparently a young bird, having the feathers on the back and rump faintly margined 
with pale brown, like the outer webs of the quills; the under parts white, strongly 
washed with pale ochre on the sides; otherwise similar to an old male from Greece. 
Long. al. Caud. Culm, Tars. Dig. int. 
3” Our 9” 3” 6” 1 ”’ 63°” 
3 3 2 6 6 11 6 . . . Greece. 
Not included in the lists of North-east African birds by Drs. Riippell, Von Heuglin, 
and Brehm, therefore an interesting addition to the avifauna of this part of Africa, and 
a valuable contribution to the geographical distribution of the species. 
Von Heuglin (Syst. Uebers. p. 277) is certainly wrong in thinking that Sylvia cras- 
sirostris, Riipp., may be identical with the present bird, the former species having the 
outermost tail-feather white.—0. F. 
[The only specimen procured. I saw one other the same day.— W. J.] 
63. SYLVIA CINEREA, Briss. 
Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 57. no. 133; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 210; id. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 7}. 
a. Mai Wallet. August 18 (no. 27). 
Von Heuglin observed this species also in the month of August on the Island of 
Dahalak.—0. F. 
[Iris grey. 
The only specimen procured.— W. J.] 
64. AHDON GALACTODES (‘Temm.). 
Aédon galactodes, Sclat. Contrib. Ornith. 1852, p. 125. 
—— minor, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 39. 
