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SUli-AM’INE WAK15LKH. 
Sj)eriJ!r Chavitelers. — 'I'lio inner barb of tlie primaries and 
secondaries edged witli white in tlie male, unicolorous olive brown 
in the female. Edge of cari)al joint in both sexes white. Length 
of an adult male from M. E. Verreaux, four inches and a half; 
from carpus to tip two inches and two tenths; tail two inches and 
three tenths; tarsus four fifths of an inch. .Eemale about same size. 
This bird was described by Tcmminclc in tbe first 
edition of tbe “Manual” as a new species. Savi and 
Roux, however, clearly demonstrated that it was not 
specifically distinct from Sylvia passerina, described in 
the third volume (edition 1835) of the “Manual,” but 
only that bird in the breeding plumage. Schlegel and 
iMiihle have consequently sunk the name of passerina, 
and adopted that of suh-alpina, given to it by Bonelli. 
To add to the confusion Meyer and M'olff have also 
described one of the plumages of this bird as a distinct 
species, Sylvia leucopoyon. It will be necessary, there- 
fore, to bear in mind that S. passerina of Temminck, 
and S. leucopoyon of Meyer and Wolff, are both com- 
jnised in the Sylvia suh-alpina of this notice. 
The Sub-alpine Warbler has a v,dde range both in 
Europe and Africa. It lives along the whole coast of 
the Mediterranean, is abundant in Algeria and Egypt, 
and is found in Sardinia, Italy, Dalmatia, Silesia, and 
in the Steppes of ISTew Russia and the Ghouriel. It 
also occurs plentifully on the borders of the Caspian 
Sea. In the South of Europe it generally appears with 
the other migratory IVarblers in the beginning of April. 
In Greece Count Miihle informs us it is seen about 
the middle of IMarch, in the low bushes and shrubs 
along the dried-up river-beds in the mountainous part 
of the country. In Italy it occupies similar localities, 
in company with the Common Mdiitethroat, and leaves 
in September or beginning of October. 
