HYPOLAIS RAMA. 



(SYKES'S WARBLER.) 



Sylvia rama, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 89. 



Calamodyta rama (Sykes), Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 172 (1848). 



Phyllopneuste rama (Sykes), Cat. B. in Mus. As. Soc. p. 183 (1849). 



Phylloscopms rama (Sykes), Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 211. 



Iduna caligata (nee Licht.), Hume, Nests & Eggs of Ind. B. p. 360 (1874). 



Hypolais rama (Sykes), Dresser, B. of Europe, ii. p. 542 (1875). 



Hippolais rama (Sykes), Brooks, Str. Feath. iv. p. 275 (1876). 



Salicaria tamariceti, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotn. p. 131 (1873). 



Salicaria modesta, id. op. cit. p. 129 (1873). 



Salicaria obsoleta, id. op. cit. p. 129 (1873). 



Hypolais obsoleta (Severtzoff), Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 86 (1881). 



Hypolais (Iduna) rama (Sykes), Pleske, Orn. Boss. ii. p. 359 (1890). 



Iduna rama (Sykes), Pleske, torn. cit. p. 360 (1890). 



Tshourlent/ci, Tekke ; Koktalgliu, Turki. 



Figura nulla. 



Ad. corpore supra sordide bruimescenti-cinereo : stria supereiliari pallide cervina : remigibus et rectricibus 

 brunnescentibus, extus sordide fulvido marginatis : corpore subtus albo : abdomine vix cerviuo lavato : 

 remige secunda octava breviore. 



Juv. corpore supra magis isabellino tincto : subtus albo, pectore flavido lavato. 



Adult Male (Merv, June 10th). Upper parts dull brownish grey with a fulvous tinge; lores dusky; a pale 

 buff streak passing from the bill above and just behind the eye ; wings and tail brown, with dull 

 fulvous-brown margins to the feathers; the outer tail-feather with the outer web dull white ; underparts 

 white, faintly tinged with buff on the abdomen : bill brown, the lower mandible dull fleshy at the 

 base; legs grey; iris brown. Total length about 5 inches, culmen - 55, wing 2 - 3, tail 2'15, tarsus 08; 

 first primary T05 short of the tip of the wing, second intermediate in length between the eighth and 

 ninth, the third, fourth, and fifth primaries equal and longest ; secondaries 035 short of the tip of 

 the wing. 



The female does not differ from the male in plumage. In the autumn the plumage is brighter and redder 

 in tinge on the upper parts, and the underparts are tinged with buff. The nestling plumage, which 

 represents Severtzoffs Hypolais obsoleta, differs, according to Pleske, in being duller and more 

 isabelline in tint on the upper parts, and the underparts are silky white tinged with yellowish on the 

 breast. 



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