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MELIZOPHILUS PROVINCIALIS. THE PROVENCE 

 FURZELING. 



DARTFORD WARBLER. 



Fig. 177. 



Motacilla provincialis. Grael. Syst. Nat. I. 958. 



Sylvia Dartfordiensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 517. 



Dartford Warbler. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Suppl. 



Bee-fin pitte-chou. Sylvia provineialis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 211. 



Dartford Warbler. MeUzophilus provincialis. Selby, 911- 1.219. 



Melizophilus provineialis. Dartford Warbler. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 112. 



Upper parts hlackish-grey, fore part of neck and sides reddisk- 

 hrown^ belly wJiite ; tail long, graduated. 



Male. — This diminutive and plainly coloured bird may be 

 described as about the size of the Short- winged Woodwren, but 

 with the tail much more elongated. Its form and proportions, 

 with the texture of its plumage, having been described in the 

 generic character, it will suffice here to indicate its colours. The 

 bill is brownish -black, with the base of the lower mandible and 

 the edges of the upper orange. The tarsi and toes are light 

 reddish-brown, the claws dusky. The general colour of the 

 upper parts is blackish-grey ; the wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail-feathers, blackish-brown, edged with grey, the edge of the 



