SYLVIA. MELIZOPHILUS. 13 



A common summer migrant to England and Wales (rarer 

 in Ireland and Scotland)^ temperate Europe, and Persia. 

 Winters in South Europe and in Africa. 



Sylvia hortensis. Gaeden Waeblee. 



Sylvia hortensis, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. p. 169 



(1802). 

 Sylvia hortensis, Naum. ii. p. 478; Macg. ii. p. 345 ; Hewit- 



son, p. 128; Gray, p. 49; Harting, p. 15. 

 Curruca hortensis, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 312; id. ed. 3, i. p. 331 ; 



Gould, ii. pi. 62. 

 Sylvia salicaria, Newton, i. p. 414; Dresser, ii. p. 429. 

 Garden Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 285. 



Hortensis = of or belonging to a garden, hortus. 



A common summer migrant to Great Britain (rarer in 

 Ireland) and North temperate Europe. Winters in Africa. 



Sylvia nisoria. Baeeed Waeblee. 



Motacilla nisoria, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iv. 



p. 580 (1795). 



Sylvia nisoria, Naum. ii. p. 430; Dresser, ii. p. 435. 



Nisoria = hawk-like, from nisits = a Sparrow-hawk (q. v.), on account of the 

 barred plumage. 



One was shot many years ago at Cambridge (Newton, 

 P. Z. S. 1879, p. 219). A summer visitor to Central, 

 Southern, and Eastern Europe ; it is found in Sweden and 

 Norway, and has occurred in Heligoland. 



Genus MELIZOPHILUS, Leach, Catal. Brit. Mus. 1816, 



p. 25. 



MeUzopMlus = song-loving ; a barbarous compound of neKlZm = I warble, 

 and tfiXew = I love. 



