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The female differs from the male iu having the head, back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts of a uniform reddish brown, causing the chest- 

 nut margins of the innermost secondaries to appear duller from want 

 of contrast. In the underparts of the female the pale slate-grey of 

 the throat and the vinous red of the breast and flanks are replaced 

 by pale buffi-sh brown. After the a'ltumn moult the upper parts of 

 the male are of a richer brown, which appears also on the tips of the 

 slaty-grey feathei's of the crown and rump. The upper parts of the 

 female are also slightly richer in colour. There appears to be no 

 change in the colour of the underparts in either sex. Yonnr/ in 

 Jirst plumage of both sexes scarcely diifer from the female in autumn 

 plumage. 



The Spectacled Warbler may be said almost to be confined to the 

 basin of the Mediterranean, extending westwards as far as the 

 Canary Islands and eastwards to Palestine. On the European coast 

 it appears to be only a summer visitor, but on many of the islands 

 and on the African coast it is said to be a resident. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Sardinia. Mar. 6, April 24 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 (A. B. Brooke). 



c. Ad. sk. Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Algeria, May (O. <S(7?i/'m). F. GodmanaiidO. Salvin, 



Esqrs.[P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Tangrier (Favter^. Purchased. 



/. d' ad. sk. Teneriffe, April 8 (F. God- F. GodmauaudO. Sahin, 



man). Esqrs. [P.]. 



g. 2 ad. sk. St. Vincent, Cape- Verd Isles, Capt. Legge [P.]. 



May 11. 



h. Ad. sk. S. lago, Cape-Verd Isles. Sir W. Burnett and Ad- 



mii'al Fitzroy [P.]. 



13. Sylvia atricapiUa. 



La Fauvette a teste noire, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 380 (17G0). 



MotaciUa atrieapilla, Linn. Si/d. Xat. i. p. 332 (1766); Beckd. 

 Xaturri. JJeiitsc/il. iv. p. 540 '(1795). 



Svlvia atrieapilla (Linn.), Scop. Ann.i. p. 156 (1769); Latfi. Ind. 

 'Om. ii. p. 508 (1790); Bechst. Orn. Taschenh. p.' 168 (1802); 

 Wolf, Taschenh. i. p. 223 (1810); Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 109 

 (ISio); Vieill. X. Diet. d'Hist.Xaf. xi. p. 224(1817); Leach, 

 Syst. Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mas. p. 25 (ISlii) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. 

 i. p. 201 (1820); Vieill. Faune Franq. i. p. 207(1820); Xaum. 

 Vog. DeutscM. ii. p. 492 (1822) ; Rou.v, Orn. Prov. p. 331 (1825); 

 Menetr. Cat. Bait. C'auc. p. 33 (1832); Jeni/ns, Man. Brit. 

 Vertebr. Y>. WS (1S35); Fiersm. Add. Pall. Zuor/r. Bosso-Asiat. 

 fasc. iii. p. 10 (18-J5); .Macgill. Br. B. ii. p. 339 (■1839) ; Crespon, 

 Orn. Gard. p. 128 (1840); Kegs. u. Bias. Jl'irb. Eur. p. 188 

 (1840); Xordm. Demid. Vog. Rush, mcrid. iii. p. 150 (1840); 

 Sel>)s-Lonqch. Faun. Belg. p. 9o (1842) ; Werner, Atlas, Insect in. 

 pi. 39 (1842); Grag, Gen. B.\. p. 174 (1848); Kja;rb. Danm. 

 Fugle, p. 157 (1852) ; Sunder. Sv. Fogl. p. 05, pi. xiii. figs. 5, 6 

 (1856): Binder m. Vog. Grieche.nl. p. 102 (1860): Scld. Dier. 

 Xederl. Voqeh, p. 55 (1801); Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 473 

 (1867); Boderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 119 (1869); Droste, Vogelw. 



