Orphean Warbler 
Sylvia hortensis 
Variation is strongly clinal from west to 
east with four well-marked subpsecies. 
Only that breeding from Yugoslavia and 
Cyrenaica east to Transcaucasia has been 
recorded on passage in the eastern Med¬ 
iterranean . 
Habitat: Large bushes and small trees in 
open woods with undergrowth, orchards, 
olive, cork and oak groves, gardens and 
high maquis. 
