SIX MONTHS’ BIRD COLLECTING IN EGYPT. 167 
94. BONELLI’S WARBLER, Phylloscopus bonellit (Vieill). 
Naturally Dr. Adams failed to meet with this im the 
winter. It isa spring migrant. We first got it at the most 
southern point of our journey, Philce, on the 27th of March. 
It may be best distinguished from the Willow Warbler by 
the underparts being white from the vent to the beak very 
faintly shaded, and by the lower part of the back being 
yellow. My specimens are rather lighter in the back than 
two Spanish ones in my collection, marked Vittoria and 
Gibraltar. 
Oss. SUBALPINE WARBLER, Sylvia subalpina, Bon. 
I thought I saw this once in April, but may easily 
have been mistaken, 
95. TREE PIPIT, Anthus trivialis (Linn.) ; 
A. arboreus (Bech). 
Captain Shelley says this bird arrives about March, but 
the first I shot was on the 23rd of April, after which I saw 
it plentifully in the groves. On being flushed from the 
ground, it would generally fly into.an upper branch of the 
nearest tree. 
96. RED-THROATED PIPIT, Anthus cervinus (Pall.) ; 
A. cecilii, Aud. (Desc. de l’Egypt, p. 281, 1825); A. coutellit, 
Aud, ? Le 
This was extremely common, more particularly in the 
Delta, where you could hardly cross a field without seeing 
numbers of them. I shot some without the least red on 
the throat in January and February, others with only a 
