OLIVK TREE WARHEER. 
out, and lined witli spiders’ webs, small rootlets, and 
liorse-liair, or thistle-down. The nest is exposed to view 
on a small branch of the olive tree; it contains four 
eggs, laid in the end of May or beginning of June, 
which are of a dull rosy red, on a grey ground, with 
black grey spots, and blackish dots and scrolls.” 
I take the description from Count IMiihle. 
“This bird is, when seen flying, in shape and plumage 
like Sylvia orphea, or nisoria, in their spring dress, 
from both of which, however, it is distinguished by its 
strong beak, broad at the root, having the ujiper man- 
dible horn-colour, and the lower orange yellow. The 
head, and the whole of the upper parts of the body 
are grey, tinted with olive, which especially predominates 
on the upper tail coverts. A distinct conspicuous streak 
of greyish white from the nostrils to the eyes. The 
chin, root of lower mandible, and especially the 
upper mandible, between the nostrils and the angle of 
the mouth, clothed with bristly hairs. The wings grey 
black, with a greyish gloss or polish on them ; the lesser 
coverts have broad greyish borders. 
The other feathers of the wings edged with white, 
which forms a large border on the primaries and great 
posterior coverts. The tail is slate grey, underneath 
paler; the first quill bordered with white, the second 
with a white spot at the end, and white edge on the 
inner barb; the third and fourth have only a small 
whitish spot at the tip. The whole under part of the 
body is white, with a yellowish tint, the sides grejdsh; 
under tall coverts whitish; eyebrows white; iris, nut- 
brown; feet lead grey, with horn-coloured claws. Tarsi 
furnished in front with nine very distinct plates, of which 
the third, fourth, and fifth are largest, though the length 
of each does not exceed two lines.” — Schlegel. 
