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SYLVIA OKPHEA. 



(ORPHEAN WARBLER.) 



La Fauvette, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 31 (1783). 

 "Motacilla hippolais, L.," Bodd. Tabl. des PI. Enl. p. 35 (1783, nee Linn.). 

 Sylvia orphea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 107 (1815). 

 Sylvia grisea, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xi. p. 188, "Provence" (1817). 

 Curruca orphea (Temm.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 

 Sylvia crassirostris, Poipp. Atlas, p. 49, taf. 33, "Nubia" (1826). 

 Curruca orphea, /3. helena, Ehr. Symb. Phys. Aves, fol. cc, "Syria" (1829). 

 Sylvia jerdoni, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 439, "India" (1847). 

 %Artamus cucullatus, Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 195, pi. 43, " India." 

 Curruca musica, L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 283. 



Curruca caniceps, Br. ubi 1 ?, cf. L. Brehm, Journ. fur Orn. 1856, p. 455, "Spain." 

 Curruca vidali, A. Br., L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 455, " Spain." 



Curruca orphea griseocapilla, A. E. Brehm, Allg. deutsch. naturh. Zeit. 1857, p. 464, 

 " Spain." 



Bee-fin orphee, French ; Bigia grossa, Italian. 



Figurce notabiles. 



DAubenton, PI. Enl. 579. fig. 1 ; Werner, Atlas, Lisectivores, pis. 34, 35 ; Fritsch, Vog. 

 Eur. taf. 21. fig. 2 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 76. figs. 3, 4 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 119 ; 

 id. B. of G. Brit. ii. pi. lxi. ; Vieill. Faun. Fran?, pi. 95. figs. 1, 2 ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 213 ; 

 Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. tav. 33. 



cf ad. fronte, pileo et capitis lateribus nigris, versus nucham pallidior : dorso, scapularibus, uropygio et supra- 

 caudalibus saturate cinereis vix brunneo adumbratis : remigibus et tectricibus alarum nigricantibus 

 pallidiore marginatis, secundariis pallidiore apicatis : rectricibus nigricautibus, rectrice extima, in 

 pogonio externo ad apicem et in pogonio interne- centraliter alba, rhachi nigra, duabus sequentibus 

 macula apicali alba, : gula, gutture et corpore subtus albis, pectore et hypocliondriis pallide rufescente 

 griseo lavatis, subcaudalibus et subalaribus pallide rufescenti-griseis : rostro nigricante, mandibula ad 

 basin cserulea : iride pallide sulpburea, : pedibus brunnescenti-plumbeis. 



2 ad. mari similis, sed pallidiore, pileo sordidiore. 



Juv. feminse similis, sed pallidiore et brunnescentiore, pileo grisescenti-plumbeo nee nigro, corpore subtus 

 albican tiore. 



Adult Male in spring (Tangier). Crown, forehead, and sides of the head sooty black, becoming paler 

 towards the nape, which, on its lower part, with the back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, is 

 dark ashy grey, with a slight sooty brown tinge ; quills and wing-coverts blackish brown, with light 



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