. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . ux have figured males I havethought it best to give a drawing of the female, thoughmales are figured in this work as a general rule. 26 • INSECTIVOR^.Family Sylvia, fLatham.) Section IV.—DUMETICOL^. Warblers, SYLVAINS, (Temmincl.) RUPPELT7S WARBLER. Sylcia ruppellii. Sylvia ruppellii, Temmikck; Manual, 1835. Keyseeling and Blasius, 1840. ScHiNZ; Europ. Fauna, 1840. ScHLEGEL; Kevue, 1844. Curruca ruppellii, Bonapakte, 1838. Geebe; Diet., RUppell, Of the Feench. Riippel
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . ux have figured males I havethought it best to give a drawing of the female, thoughmales are figured in this work as a general rule. 26 • INSECTIVOR^.Family Sylvia, fLatham.) Section IV.—DUMETICOL^. Warblers, SYLVAINS, (Temmincl.) RUPPELT7S WARBLER. Sylcia ruppellii. Sylvia ruppellii, Temmikck; Manual, 1835. Keyseeling and Blasius, 1840. ScHiNZ; Europ. Fauna, 1840. ScHLEGEL; Kevue, 1844. Curruca ruppellii, Bonapakte, 1838. Geebe; Diet., RUppell, Of the Feench. RiippelVs Sanger or Grasmiicke, Of the Germans. Specific Characters.—Above ask grey; tail black, the outermostquill feather clear white; on the two following, the tip and awedge-shaped spot on the inner web, white; on the fourth andfifth also a small white spot on the tip. Length about fiveinches and a half.—Muhle. This Warbler is an Asiatic species, inhabiting especiallytbe borders of the Red Sea and the Nile. It wasintroduced into the European fauna by Temminck in. RUPPELL3 WARBLER. ruppells warbler. 27 the last edition of his Manual in 1835. Its Europeanlocality has hitherto been confined to Greece, where itwas observed, though rarely, by Count Miihle. Accord-ing to Lindermayer it occurs in the bushy ravines ofthe Attic Mountain range, but Count Miihle found itonly in the Morea. The single specimen he captured,he informs us, was sitting on the outstretching branchof a bush in the hollow of a rocky ravine, It appears in Greece in May, and leaves in does not appear to be so sprightly or quick in itsmovements as its congener, the Dartford Warbler. Itwill sit on the end of a branch Avith hanging tailwhile guns are fired in the neighbourhood, withoutbeing alarmed. Count Miihle adds nothing about itssong, and says that its nidification and propagation isone of the points in its natural history still to beelucidated. Thienemann says the nest is cup-sha]3ed,somewhat scant
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