98 WARBLER. 



head, hind neck, back and wings grey brown, inclining to rufous 

 on the rump, and upper tail coverts; under parts of the body dirty 

 brownish white; on the throat a few markings of the same, on a 

 whiter ground ; from the forehead, over the eye, passes a line of 

 white, curving downwards; on the scapulars, and greater wing 

 coverts, some undulations of white ; quills brown; tail cuneiform, 

 grey brown ; all but the two middle feathers deeply margined on the 

 outer webs and ends with white ; legs bright brown. The female is 

 smaller, the colours more dull, and the rump not rufous. 



Inhabits much the same places as the last, and makes the nest in 

 a low bush, laying four or five sea-green eggs ; feeds on insects : the 

 male, while the female sits, has a song resembling the sound of a flute, 

 or flageolet; but the cry of the female is only similar to the syllables 

 Trictric trie, several times repeated. In the nest of one of these 

 M. Levaillant found an egg of the Noisy Cuckow, but on viewing it 

 another day, it was broken and cast out ; hence it should seem, that 

 the eggs of the Cuckow are not always taken care of by the foster 

 parent. 



97.— STRUTTING WARBLER. 



Le Pavaneur, Levail. Afr. iii. 94. pi. 122. 1. 2. 



SIZE and shape of the Dartford Warbler. Bill and legs 

 brownish ; general colour of the plumage above red brown, beneath 

 lighter, especially towards the lower belly and chin ; quills and tail 

 rather deeper than the rest; tail cuneiform.* 



The female is smaller, and the brown less deep, beneath light 

 coloured, or yellowish, marked on the breast with dusky streaks. 



Inhabits the interior of the Cape of Good Hope, chiefly found 

 about the Bay of Blettenberg, or Lagoa, and in general in all the 

 country of Hottniquas ; it flies with great difficulty, as the wings are 



* According to M. Levaillant it has only ten feathers. 



