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'1 he Birds of Gambia. 
Cisticola erythiops. 
Range. West Africa (SenegHiiibia to Congo) ; Equatorial Africa; 
Abyssinia. fH.L.) 
C. Ingubris. BUFF-FRONTED GRASS-WARBLER. 
Range. West (Senegambia to Congo), North, East and South 
Africa. (H.L.j 
The Cisticolae are among the most characteristic of our resident 
Warblers, and are true Grass- Warblers in every way, as ihey are hardly ever 
seen away from long grass. They and the closely allied neighbouring 
genera are small brown birds, many of them tiny fantailed mites. In May, 
1909, I have a note that I think I can identify our two common Grass- 
Warblers: "the two Grass-Warblers common at Bakau, and elsewhere, are 
C. eiythrops, a brown-buff bird with a <listinct reddish brown tinge on the 
forehead and face; and another which, provisionally at any rate, I take to 
be C. Ingnbrts, it is a lighter coloured bird, buff-brown above and pale buff 
below." 
Hypolais polygloila. MELODIOUS TRKE-WARBLDR. 
Range. South and south-west Europe ; West Africa in winter. (H.L.) 
H. opaca. WESTERN OLIVACEOUS TREE- WARBLER. 
Range. Western Mediterranean countries; West Africa in winter. 
(H.L.) 
Sylvia cine>ea. WHITETHROAT. 
Range. Europe and Asia ; Africa in winter. (H.L.) 
One of the few European visitors which I frequently recognise in the 
Gambia. I have seen it at many different places up the river. 
S. simplex. GARDEN WARBLER. 
Range. Europe to the Yenesei ; Africa in winter. (H.L.) 
S. orpheus. ORPHEAN WARBLER. 
Range. Central and South Filiirope, North Africa; Senegambia and 
North-east Africa in winter. (H.L.) 
S. airicapilla. BLACKCAP. 
Range. Europe to Western Persia ; the Azores, South Europe, Sene- 
gambia anil Equatorial Africa in winter. {H.L.) 
S. subalphia. SUH-ALPINE WARBLER. 
Range. Mediterranean to Persia : Senegambia in winter. (H.L.) 
PhylloscopHS sibilalot. WOOD-WARBLER. 
Range. Temperate Fhirope ; North-east and West Africa (Gold 
Coast) in winter. (H.L.) 
P. bonellii. BONELLI'S WARBI^EK. 
Range. Mediterranean countries ; North Africa and Senegambia in 
winter. (H.L.) 
