1. SYIYIA. 7 



Consp. i. p. 295 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 35(1850) ; Kjeerh. 



Damn. Fugle, p. 155 (1852); Suiidev. So. Fogl. p. 63, pl.xiii. tig. 3 



(l'!>56) ; Schl. Dier. Nederl. Vot/els, p. 55 (18ol) ; Dubois, Ois. 



Eur. pi. 64 (1802) ; Gray, Hakd-l. B. i. p. 214. no. 3024 (1869) ; 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 315 (1869) ; Saload. Faun. Ital. Ucc. 



p. 99 (1871) ; Sevekz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873 ) ; Dresser, B. 



Eur. pt. XXX. (1874) ; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 79 ; Blanf. East. Pers. ii. 



p. 174 (1876). 

 Curruca nisoria (BecJist.), Koch, Si/st. baier. Zool. i. p. 434 (1816) ; 



Boie, Ms, 1822, p. 553 ; Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 128 (1837) ; Jaub. 



et Barih.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 242 (1859) ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. 



Eur. i. p. 4S5 (1867) ; Doderl. Arif. Sicil. p. 123 (1869). 

 Adophoneus nisorius {Bechst.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 2ii (1820). 

 Curruca undata, Brehni, Voy. Deutschl. p. 414 (1831, nee Bodd.), 

 CuiTuca undulata, Brehm, toin. cit. p. 415 (1831). 

 Nisoria undata {Brehm), Bp. Conip. List B. Eur. and N. Amer. 



p. 15 (1838). 

 Adophoneus uudatu.s, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 283. 

 Adophoneus undulatus, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 283. 

 Sylvia (Adophoneus) nisoria (Bechst.), Fritsck, Vdg. Eur. p. 177 



"(1870). 

 Philacantha nisoria (Bechst.), Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 355 ; David et 



Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 242 (1877). 



In the adult male in spring plumage the general colour of the 

 upper parts is brownish grey, browner on the quills, wing-covcrts, 

 and innermost secondaries, and slightly greyer on the head, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail ; the wing-coverts, the innermost 

 secondaries, the outside tail- feathers, the feathers of the mmp, and 

 the upper tail-coverts, and occasioually the scapulars, forehead, and 

 lower back, are more or less distinctly margined and broadly tipped 

 with greyish white, the pale tips being emphasized by a narrow 

 transverse subterminal dark-brown bar ; similar bars are present 

 more or less distinctly on nearly every feather of the uuder- 

 parts, which are otherwise greyish white, slightly browner on the 

 breast, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coveits buflHsh white, generally transversely barred with dark 

 grey ; inner margin of quills pale brown. Bill of typical shape, 

 dark brown, the under mandible pale at the base ; rictal bristles 

 few and slender. \\'ing very pointed, the second and third pri- 

 maries beins' about equal and longest ; bastard primary very 

 minute, falling short of the primary-coverts by about 0-4 inch. 

 Tail shorter than the wing, slightly rounded, the outside feathers 

 being from O-'Jo to O'lo inch shorter than the longest. Legs, feet, 

 and claws pale slaty brown. Length of wing 3-5 to 3-35 inches, 

 tail 3-0 to 2-8, culnicn 0-7 to O-fi, tarsus 0-95. 



The ft-male scarcely dift'ers from the male. After the autumn 

 moult the upper parts are slightly browner, and the barring both 

 above and below more distinct. Birds of the year are browner both 

 above and below, and the bars on the under surface are generally 

 confined to the under tail-coverts. 



The Barred Warbler has a very limited range latitndinally, 

 breeding in G-ermauy, South Sweden, Trant-ylvania, South Itussia, 



