OZ OLIVE TEEE WARBLER. 



out, and lined with spiders' webs, small rootlets, and 

 liorse-liair, or tliistle-down. The nest is exposed to view 

 on a small brancli of the olive tree; it contains four 

 eggs, laid in the end of May or beginning of June, 

 which are of a dull rosy red, on a grey ground, with 

 black grey spots, and blackish dots and scrolls." 



I take the description from Count Miihle. 



"This bird is, when seen flying, in shape and plumage 

 like Sylvia orphea, or nisoria, in their spring dress, 

 from both of which, however, it is distinguished by its 

 strong beak, broad at the root, having the upper man- 

 dible horn colour, and the lower orange yellow. The 

 head, and the whole of the upper parts of the body 

 are grey, tinted with olive, which especially predominates 

 on the upper tail coverts. A distinct conspicuous streak 

 of greyish white from the nostrils to the eyes. The 

 chin, root of lower mandible, and especially the 

 upper mandible, between the nostrils and the angle of 

 the mouth, clothed with bristly hairs. The wings grey 

 black, with a greyish gloss or polish on them; the lesser 

 coverts have broad greyish borders. 



The other feathers of the wings edged with white, 

 which forms a large border on the primaries and great 

 posterior coverts. The tail is slate grey, underneath 

 paler; the first quill bordered with white, the second 

 with a white spot at the end, and white edge on the 

 inner barb; the third and fourth have only a small 

 whitish spot at the tip. The whole under part of the 

 body is white, with a yellowish tint, the sides greyish; 

 under tail coverts whitish; eye-brows white; iris nut- 

 brown; feet lead grey, with horn-coloured claws. Tarsi 

 furnished in front with nine very distinct plates, of which 

 the third, fourth, and fifth are largest, though the length 

 of each does not exceed two lines." — Schlegel. 



