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tinent it extends far north to Norway,* and even 
Lapland. | It is also spread over the south of 
Europe, and there seems rather to diverge to 
the African Continent, the Azores being given as 
one locality, while we have received it from 
Madeira. Temminck gives the Cape of Good 
Hope and Senegal, and the Zoological Society 
have specimens from Trebizond. It is included 
in the list of Japanese birds, and one specimen 
has been received from Java, J the only other 
Asiatic instance. From these various localities, 
the authorities for which we have every reason to 
respect, we perceive a very ample and extended 
range, more so, indeed, than any of the Sylviads 
we have either noticed, or have yet to describe. 
The male has the crown aud back of the head, 
in a line with the eyes, deep black ; the cheeks, 
sides of the neck and nape, bluish-gray, the 
remaining upper parts gray, tinged with oil-green, 
or of a colour very nearly approaching to hair- 
brown ; the lower parts are grayish-white, darker 
on the flanks and across the breast, and clearest 
in the centre of the belly and vent ; legs and feet 
are bluish-gray or lead colour. The female has 
the head, where black in the male, of a clear 
yellowish-brown, reaching rather farther back to 
the nape ; the cheeks and nape are gray, tinged 
with greenish, and the upper parts are nearly of 
the same colour with those of the male ; under- 
neath, the colour is a yellowish hair-brown, 
Hewitson. 
t Nilson. 
J Temminck. 
