276 SKETCHES OF EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



unibande, Fr., — Ringel Waldhuhn, G. The genus Pterocles se- 

 parated, by Temrainck^ from Telrao, includes only two species. 

 P. setarius, — see p. 100 of this volume, and the subject of the pre- 

 sent plate, an inhabitant of Spain, Sicily, North Africa, and Asia. 

 A male and female are here represented in INIr. Gould's best and 

 boldest style. 



Plate XVI. — The Blue-throated Warbler, Phcemcura — , 



Motacilla — , Sylvia — , Curruca — Suecica, — Becfin Gorge-bleue, 

 Fr., — Beca-Fico chiamato, //. Of this beautiful and interesting 

 little bird, thinly dispersed over the European continent, from Swe- 

 den to the Mediterranean, one specimen only has yet been met with 

 in the British islands. It is at once distinguishable from its 

 congeners by the ultramarine blue colour of the throat and upper 

 part of the neck, with a patch of pure silky white in the centre. 

 The male and female are exquisitely figured by Mr. Gould. Cya- 

 necula is obviously a more appropriate specific designation, than 

 Suecica, for a blue-throated bird. 



Plate XVII. — The Green Woodpecker, — Picus viridis, — Pic 

 vert, Fr.^ — Piechio verde. It., — Griinspecht, G., — is here delineated 

 in all the author's characteristic style of boldness, accuracy, and 

 splendour. The two figures exhibited, are those of an adult and 

 young male bird. On what good ground this beautiful inhabitant 

 of our forests has been torn from its ancient family-connections, 

 and transformed into a Chrysoptilus, we have yet to learn. 



Plate XVIII. — Of our favorite little songster, the Black-cap, 

 — Curruca — , Motacilla — , Sylvia — atricapilla, — Bee-fin a tete 

 noir, Fr., — Capinera commune. It., — Schwarzkopfige Grasmiicke, 

 G., — we are here presented with two delightful figures, male and 

 female. To our view, the present is one of ^the most captivating 

 plates in Mr. Gould's splendid and captivating work. It is neces- 

 sary to distinguish the present bird from the Sylvia melanocephala, 

 of Latham, — bee-fin melanocephale, of Temminck, — a species which 

 inhabits south Europe, but is, as yet, an alien to the British islands. 



Plate XIX. — A charming representation of the Grey Snipe, — 

 Macroramphus griseus, — Becassine ponctuee, Fr., — in two figures, 

 illustrating the appearance of the bird in its summer and winter 

 plumage. It is, in its former state, the red-breasted Snipe, of Pen- 

 nant and of Wilson, — Scolopax Novoboracensis, Latham, — American 

 Ornithology, v. ii., p. 337 i in the latter, the Brown Snipe, of Pen- 

 nant, and S. grisea, of Latham's Index Ornithologicus. It is men- 

 tioned, under the title of the New York Godwit, at p. 398 of Nor- 

 thern Zoology ; and figured, under the article Snipe, in the Supple- 



