398 



PA SiSERES. 



SYLVim^-. 



SYL VIID.E.. 



Melizophilus undatus (Boddaert * ) . 



THE DARTFORD WARBLER. 



Melizophilus Dartfordiensis f . 



Melizophilus, Leaclt %. — Bill long and somewlmt V)roa(l at the base, compressed 

 in front of the nostrils, the upper mandible overlaijping the lower at the sides, 

 and slightly emai'ginated near the tip ; nostrils basal, subsupernal and longitu- 

 dinal, situated in a large depression ; gape beset with hairs. Eyelids bare and 

 prominent. Wings feeble, somewhat incurved and not reaching nnich beyond the 

 root of the tail, which is long and graduated ; the first primary small, but com- 

 paratively well-develoj^ed ; the second shorter than any of the next four ; tlie 

 fourth and fifth the longest in the wing. Tar.si strong, scaled in front, and longer 

 than the middle toe ; outer and inner toes nearly equal ; claws moderate. 



The Daktfokd Warblee was first made known to natu- 

 ralists, and that as an inhabitant of this country, by Dr. 

 Latham, who, having obtained specimens on Bexley Heath, 

 near Dartford, April 10th, 1773, communicated the fact to 



* Motacilla undata, Boddaert, Table des Planches Enlumincez, p. 40, no. 6.55, 

 fig. 1 (1783). 



t Bjjlvia durtfordicnsh, Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 517 (1790). 

 t Syst. Cat. Mammals and Birds in Brit. Mu.s. p. 25 (1816). 



