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PASS'f^RES. 



SYLVIID/E. 



sYLV/in.^:. 



Melizophilus undatus (Boddaert*). 



THE DARTFORD WARBLER. 



Melhopliihis Ikirtfordiens'ia^. 



Melizophilus, Leach %. — Bill long and somewhat hroad at the base, compressed 

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

 and slightly emarginated 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 raiich beyond the 

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

 paratively well-developed ; the second shorter than any of the next four ; the 

 foui-th and fifth the longest in the wing. Tarsi strong, scaled in front, and longer 

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



The Dartford Warbler was tii-st 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 



* MotaciUa iindata, Boddaert, Table des Planches flnlumineez, p. 40, no. 6.5.5, 

 fig. 1 (1783). 



+ Sijh-ia dartfordiensls, Latham, Ind. Oru. ii. p. ol7 (1790). 

 t Syst. Cat. Mammals and Birds in Brit. Mus. p. 2:5 (1816). 



