352 SYLVIA CINEREA. 



ovate, with eighteen quills ; the first minute and acuminate, 

 the second, third, and fourth almost equal, the third longest, 

 the third and fourth slightly cut out at the end ■; the secondaries 

 very long ; the primaries rounded, the secondaries truncato- 

 rotundate. The tail is rather long, straight, and rounded ; the 

 lateral feathers considerably shorter than the next ; the feathers 

 weak and rather narrow. 



The upper mandible and the jDoint of the lower are dusky, 

 the rest flesh-coloured; the mouth yellow. The iris is brownish- 

 black, the edges of the eyelids dusky. The tarsi are brownish- 

 red, the toes darker, the claws dusky-brown. The general 

 colour of the upper parts is light greyish-brown, the head 

 darker and more tinged with grey, the rump more brown ; the 

 feathers of the eyelids whitish ; the loral space, and a band be- 

 low the eye, of the same colour as the head ; the ear coverts 

 brown ; the sides of the neck pale brownish-grey, a faint patch 

 of that colour projecting before the wing. The feathers of the 

 wings and tail are dusky brown, edged with light brownish- 

 red, the primaries narrowly with paler, the secondaries and 

 their coverts broadly with deeper red ; the lateral tail-feathers 

 with an oblique longitudinal band of greyish -white, including 

 the terminal half of the inner web, and the whole of the outer ; 

 the next two feathers tipped with the same ; the lower parts 

 are greyish- white ; the fore part of the neck tinged with reddish, 

 the sides and tibial feathers with brown. Some authors de- 

 scribe the throat and abdomen as white, but these parts are 

 always more or less tinged with grey. 



Length to end of tail 5{^ inches ; extent of wings 8f ; bill 

 along the ridge |*g, along the edge of lower mandible j\ ; wing 

 2i| ; tail 2-^^ ; tarsus ^^ ; hind toe A, its claw j| ; second 

 toe -^%, its claw j% ; third toe |i, its claw ^^ ; fourth toe |>, 

 its claw 1%. 



Female. — The female does not differ materially in size. Its 

 colours also are similar, but the upper parts, in place of being 

 strongly tinged with grey, are generally of a uniform light- 

 brown ; the brownish red on the wings is paler, and more tinged 

 with yellow; the fore-neck is almost destitute of the faint 



