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les autres sont seulement terminees de blanc sale. La femelle est d'un °;ris roussatre en dessus. 

 et d'un blanc nankin en dessous. 



" Le bee brun, avec la mandibule inferieure jaune depuis la base jusqu'a son milieu; l'iris 

 marion clair, et les paupieres jaunes ; les pieds sont de couleur isabelle et les ongles noires." 



In habits Bowman's Warbler is said not to differ from Sylvia melanocepliala. As regards its 

 nidification I can give no data ; for, so far as I can ascertain, no authentic eggs or nest are to be 

 seen in any collection ; it appears probable, however, that they are not much different from those 

 of Sylvia melanocephala. 



The specimens figured are an adult male and female obtained in Palestine by Canon Tristram. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. B. Tristram, 

 a, 6- Jericho, January 2nd, 1864; [H. B. T.). b, ? . Hebron, February 8th, 1864 (H. B. T.). 



E Mus. II. Seebohm. . 

 a, 6 juv. } b, ? . Jericho, January 1864 (H. B. T.). c, 6 juv. Palestine, April 21st, 186-4 (H. B. T.). 



E Mus. Ind. Calc. 

 a, b, 6 ad., c,juv. Shiraz, Persia, June, d, 6 juv. Isfahan (W. T. Blanford). 



E Mus. Berol. 

 a, b. Nubia, c. Syria (Hemprich § Ehrenberg). 



