164 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 
84. RUFOUS WARBLER, Aedon galactodes (Tem.). 
Was got first on the 24th of March, and shortly after- 
- wards it had become common in the tobacco fields, etc. It 
is very fond of the lower branches of the Sont tree. I have 
seen ove perch as high up as twenty feet, but that is ex- 
ceptional. It is generally to be seen upon the ground, 
strutting about with its tail cocked up. I found this species 
at the Faioum. In Dr. Bree’s translation of Heuglin, it is 
stated that Dr. Hartman observed one at the end of Novem- 
ber in Lower Egypt, but I cannot help suspecting that 
there may have been a mistake as to the species seen by 
him, 
%85. ORPHEAN WARBLER, Sylvia orphea (Tem.). 
I shot this in a low tree near Benisouef, February 24th. 
It appeared to be alone: I did not see another one, and 
indeed I should not expect it to be mated so early. 
86. BLACK-HEADED WARBLER, Sylvia melanocephala 
(Gm.). 
T hardly know if I am justified in including it, but 
every other writer seems to have found it common. Mr. 
E. C. Taylor even goes so far as to say that it is perhaps 
the most abundant Warbler in March (Ibis for 1867, p. 62). 
I believe that I saw it once or twice ; and as the probabilities 
are thus strongly in its favour, perhaps I should be least 
justified in omitting it. 
87. LESSER WHITETHROAT, Sylvia curruca (Linn.). 
Probably this is a migrant which winters in Egypt further 
south than the Chiff-Chaff, and yet not so. far as the majority 
