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HOOTED REED WARBLER. 
Keyseiilng and Blasius also describe the Berlin 
specimen minutely, and consider it synonymous with 
Pallas’s 3Iotacilla salicaria, which view is also taken 
by Schlegel in an elaborate analysis in his ‘‘Bevue 
Critique.” Lastly, Count Muhle, after careful exami- 
nation of the specimen in the Berlin Museum, identifies 
it with a specimen he had killed in Greece. Eversmann, 
having in 1842-3 published an addenda to Pallas’s 
‘‘Zoography,” described the bird which he had dis- 
covered as Sylvia scita. Thus, though the identity 
of Motacilla salicaria and S. scita may be still open to 
doubt, and is in fact doubted by Count Miihle, it is 
quite certain that the latter bird, captured in Greece, 
and described and figured in his work, is identical 
with the S. scita of Eversmann, thus establishing clearly 
its title to the distinction of an European species. 
The Booted Warbler has only been found in Siberia, 
llussia, and Greece. Eversmann found it on the banks 
of the rivers in the Ural Mountains. It is described 
by Pallas as inhabiting the banks of rivers, among the 
willows. It hangs on the stems of the trees, and is 
continually in motion, and singing most agreeably. It 
constructs in the forks of the branches a nest composed 
of grass, and it lays four or five eggs. 
Thienemann figures the egg from specimens sent from 
the Volga, but I think this source too doubtful for 
reliance. Altogether we want a great deal more infor- 
mation about this species. 
The upper parts are of a pale and dirty olive-colour; 
the inferior whitish, but the throat is of a pure white. 
Primaries and tail brownish grey; middle tail feathers 
with lighter edges, the external ones edged with whitish 
on both sides: the following are only edged with this 
colour on the inner barbs and at the tip. Beak black. 
