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French, Pitchou Provençal; German, Provence-Grasmücke; Italian, Magnanina; Portuguese, Gheide; Spanish, Golorin Caganchina.

Adult Male in Spring.—The upper parts are dark chocolate brown but rather more slate colour on the crown. The wing-coverts are the same colour as the back, the flight-feathers dark brown, the innermost secondaries rather broadly edged with rusty brown, and the remainder narrowly edged with the same colour. The bastard wing is slate colour with narrow whitish edges to the feathers and the axillaries are whitish. The tail is slate colour, each feather being edged with brownish grey becoming lighter towards the tip, and the outer web of the outermost tail-feather is whitish towards the tip. The shafts are dark slate. The space in front of the eye