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colour, with dark spots and specks, mostly round, but now and then running into streaks. The 

 underlying spots are very indistinct. The spots are generally pretty evenly distributed over the 

 whole surface ; but occasionally they are collected in a zone round the large end. The song 

 of H. pallida becomes as familiar in the olive-yards of Greece and Asia Minor as that of the 

 Willow-Warbler in our English copses. It reminded me most of the song of the Whitethroat ; 

 but it is rather louder, and not quite so rapidly uttered." Canon Tristram (Ibis, 1867, p. 82) 

 gives some careful details respecting the nidification of the present species, which, agreeing fully 

 with what is given above, I refrain from quoting. 



Like its congeners the present species is strictly insectivorous, and feeds on small insects 

 which it obtains amongst the foliage of the trees on which it lives. 



The specimen figured, on the same Plate with Ilypolais polyglotta, is an adult male from 

 Egypt in my own collection. 



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



E Mus. II. E. Dresser. 



a, 6 . Ortakeuy, June 10th, 1871 (Robson) . b. Asia Minor, May 27th, 1870 {Robson). c, tf . Egypt (She/letj). 

 d,6. Attica, June 22nd, 1867 (Dr. Kriiper). e,$. Smyrna, June 28th, 1871 (Dr. Kruper). f, J. 

 Jericho, April 14th, 1861 (H. B. Tristram). 



E Mus. G. E. Shelley. 

 a, <$. Nubia, April 7th, 1870 (G. E. S.). b, 2 . Nubia, April 9th, 1870 (G. E. S.). 



E Mus. II. B. Tristram. 



u,6. Kishon, March 22nd, 186-4 (H.B.T.). b, 6 , c, d . Caiffa, Palestine, March 24th, 1861 (H. B. T.). 

 d, 6 . Palestine, March 9th, 1864 (H. B. T.). e, <*,/, ?. Palestine, April 1861 (H. B. T.). 



