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Mr. O. Salvin's Five Months’ Birds’-nesting 
carefully eludes observation by skulking from busk to bush as 
one approaches. In the above-mentioned shrubs it builds its 
nest, making a loose but neat structure of dry grass with a 
scanty lining of horsehair. The eggs in one nest seldom exceed 
four. The Arabic name is “ M’zizzee’’ 
38. Sylvia orphea. (Orphean Warbler.) 
This is a tolerably common bird about the wooded hill-sides 
of Djendeli, where it usually breeds, though we sometimes ob¬ 
tained nests from the tamarisk-trees in the plain. Its nest much 
resembles that of the common Blackcap (S. atricapilla), but 
differs in being more compact and thicker; the position in the 
branch of the tree selected is usually similar. The note of this 
bird is pleasing, but hardly so much so as to entitle it to the 
name of the Orphean Warbler. 
39. Hippolais polyglotta. (Latham's Pettychaps.) 
A very common bird about the Chemora, where we found it 
breeding in the tamarisk-trees. 
40. Piiylloscopus rufus. (Chiff-chaff.) 
This was the first bird I heard on landing at Philippeville 
before proceeding to Tunis. It appears to winter in Algeria. 
I obtained specimens near El Djem in March. 
41. PmrLLoscoPUS trochilus. (Willow Wren.) 
During the month of March I shot more than one of this 
species in the Regency of Tunis. 
42. Piiylloscopus sibilatrix. (Wood Wren.) 
I shot a single specimen of this bird (the only one I saw) 
in May, near where the Chemora empties itself into Lake 
Djendeli. 
43. Saxicola cenanthe. (Wkeatear.) 
A specimen of this bird was shot near Zana in June. 
44. Saxicola leucura. (Black Wheatear.) 
More abundant about the Djendeli district than elsewhere. 
It appears to be an earlier breeder than other Saxicolce , as young 
were found at the end of May in an advanced stage. 
