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HYPOLAIS OLIVETORUM. 



(OLIVE-TREE WARBLER.) 



Salicaria olivetorum, Strickland, in Gould's B. of Eur. part xx. (1837). 



Calamoherpe olivetorum (Str.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 13 (1838). 



Sylvia olivetorum (Str.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 611 (1840). 



Sylvia olivetorum (Str.), Drummond, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 415 (1843). 



Eypolais olivetorum (Str.), L. Gerbe, Rev. Zool. vii. p. 440 (1844). 



Ficedula olivetorum (Str.), Schlegel, Obs. sur le S. G. des Pouillots, p. 27 (1848). 



Calamoclyta olivetorum (Str.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 172 (1849). 



Chloropeta olivetorum (Str.), G. R. Gray, Hand-list of B. i. p. 214. no. 3027 (1869). 



Figures notabiles. 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 107; Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pi. 58. fig. 2. 



$ ad. supra sordide brunnescenti-giisea, vix olivaceo adumbrata : alis et Cauda, saturatioribus : remigibus in 

 pogonio externo vix albido marginatis et apicatis, secundariis intimis eodem colore conspicue margi- 

 natis : rectricibus exteruis vix albo marginatis, et rectricibus omnibus versus apicem pallidioribus : ad 

 basin rostri supra oculum stria, albida, : marginibus palpebrarum albis : corpore subtiis albo, pectore et 

 crisso flavicante cervino lavatis : hypochondriis grisescente cervino adumbratis : rostro cornescenti- 

 brunneo, mandibula. flavicante versus apicem brunnea, : pedibus sordide plumbescenti-griseis : iride 

 fusca. 



Juv. adulta? similis sed ubique sordidior et pallidior, remigibus et tectricibus alarum in pogonio externo 

 rufescente conspicue marginatis. 



Adult Female (Smyrna, 19th May). Upper parts dull brownish grey, with a faint olive tinge; wings and 

 tail rather darker and browner than the back ; primaries and outer secondaries narrowly margined and 

 tipped with dirty white, inner secondaries similarly but more broadly margined on the outer web ; 

 outer tail-feather with a narrow white margin to both webs, and all the tail-feathers rather lighter at 

 the tips ; from the base of the bill, extending over and behind the eye, an indistinct whitish line ; 

 margins of the eyelids white; underparts -white, on the breast and vent washed with very pale yellowish 

 buff; flanks washed with brownish buff; beak horn-brown, the under mandible yellowish, except at the 

 tip; legs dull lead-grey; iris dark brown. Total length about 6 inches, culmen 073, wing 3 - 3, tail 2 - 8, 

 tarsus 095 ; first primary very small, measuring from the carpal joint to its tip l - 2; second and fourth 

 quills about equal, the fourth being, if any thing, a shade the longer; third quill longest, measuring 

 Ol longer than the second. 



Adult Male in autumn (Smyrna, 1st August). Similar to the female above described, but rather duller in 

 colour, the feathers on the upper parts being rather worn and abraded. 



Young (Attica, 22nd June) . Resembles the adult, but is duller and paler in colour, and the quills and wing- 

 coverts have the outer web margined with dull reddish brown. According to Count von der Miihle 

 (Monogr. Eur. Sylv. p. 90) the young bird in its first plumage closely resembles the young of Sylvia 



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