CETTIA.
Small brown Warblers with graduated tail of so feathers, under tail coverts reaching about of tail; frequent damp localities; of shy habits; insectivorous ; nest a cup in a bush ; eggs brick red, occasionally with a pinkish tinge.
Cettia cetti cetti (Temminck). CETTI's \VARnLER.
d 9 Above red brown, supercilium dull white ; beneath dull white, brown on flanks, abdomen, and under tail coverts ; axillaries pale grey brown with whitish tips. Bill dark brown, paler below at base. Legs and feet brown. Wing j 5S-66,
9 54-6o (W.). Tarsus 20-22. Bill 9-10.
Resident.—S. Europe, from Spain and Portugal through S. France to Balkans, Greece, S. Russia and Caucasus ; Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Asia Minor ; also N.W. Africa, Morocco to Tunisia.
C. cetti cettioides Hume. Paler than typical form with little or no brown on flanks. Wing d 7o-72.5, 9 64-65 (H.).
Resident.—S. Ural and Lower Volga and in W. Asia from Persia to Turkestan. Recorded from India in winter.