BARRED WARBLER. 389 
are, like them, principally distributed at the larger end of the egg. They 
vary in length from ‘9 to ‘8 inch, and in breadth from ‘65 to ‘6 inch. 
The adult male Barred Warbler in spring plumage has the general 
colour of the upper parts brownish grey, browner on the quills, wing- 
coverts, 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 rump and the upper tail- 
coverts, and occasionally 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 underparts, which are otherwise greyish white, slightly browner on the 
breast, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts; the axillaries and under 
wing-coverts-are buffish white, generally transversely barred with dark 
grey. Bill dark brown above, pale at the base of the lower mandible ; 
legs, feet, and claws pale slaty brown; irides pale yellow. The female 
scarcely differs from the male. After the autumn moult the upper parts 
are slightly browner, and the barring, both above and below, is 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. 
