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tlie last edition of liis "Manual" in 1835. Its European 

 locality has hitherto been confined to Greece, where it 

 was observed, though rarely, by Count Miihle. Accor- 

 ding to Linderniayer it occurs in the bushy ravines of 

 the Attic Mountain range, but Count Miihle found it 

 only in the Morea. The single specimen he captured 

 he informs us, was "sitting on the outstretching branch 

 of a bush in the hollow of a rocky ravine." 



It appears in Greece in May, and leaves in August. 

 It does not appear to be so sprightly or quick in its 

 movements as its congener, the Dartford Warbler. It 

 will sit on the end of a branch with "hanging tail" 

 while guns are fired in the neighbourhood, without 

 being alarmed. Count Miihle adds nothing about its 

 song, and says that its nidification and propagation is 

 one of the points in its natural history still to be 

 elucidated. Thienemann says the nest is cup-shaped, 

 somewhat scantily and loosely built of dry stems of 

 plants, dry leaves, strips of bark and vines loosely lined 

 inside with softer materials. The ground-colour of the 

 eggs is milk or yellowish white, with delicate pale 

 green and grey green spots, which form a narrow ring 

 near the base. 



I take the description from Count Mhhle: — The 

 whole upper part of the body is ash blue grey; the wings 

 are brownish black; the greater wing coverts, as well 

 as the hind feathers of the wing are bordered with a 

 whitish circle; the primaries are marked externally with 

 a whitish border; first very short, second and fifth of 

 same length, the third the longest, very nearly the 

 same length as the fourth. The slender black tail is 

 rounded; the outside feathers entirely white, except at 

 the root, which is blackish; the shafts white. Under 

 parts white, going ofi" into ash grey in the flanks. Bill 



