uarrp:i) wa ruler. 
The note of S. Jiisoria is strong and melodious, and 
it sings from early morning till late in the evening a 
song not inferior to that of the Garden Warbler, 
which it somewhat resembles. It sings frequently 
while flying, and may often be seen rising up 
several yards into the air, and then falling down like 
a shot upon another tree or bush, alternately flying 
and fluttering. 
In autumn the young males may be heard like the 
other Hedge Warblers, snapping and croaking to all 
comers. 
The Barred Warbler, according to Muhle, builds 
in the beginning of May in thick thorn bushes, at a 
height of two to four feet, a slight half-globular-shaped 
nest. It is made very loose, with dry stalks of plants, 
small straws interwoven with spiders’ and caterpillars’ 
webs, and lined inside with horse-hair. It lays four 
to six eggs, grey greenish or yellowish grey, with 
bright ash grey or pale brown spots. They only breed 
once a year, and the male and female sit on the eggs 
alternately. 
The male has the whole upper part of the body 
clear dark grey, usually with a rusty yellowish tint. 
The greater and lesser wing coverts and upper tail 
coverts edged with white, more feeble and contracted 
from the third to the fifth primary; the third primary 
longest, the second almost as long; tail dark ash grey, 
first feathers Avith outer border Avhitish; the middle 
quill and second quill have at the end a broad wedge- 
shaped white spot; the third and fourth an oblique 
deep edge of AATite. Under parts of body greyish 
Avhite, and flanks darker, with dark grey AvaAy lines, 
especially well marked on the under tail coverts, taking 
there a lanceolate form. In the young birds these wavy 
