2C8 SYLVIAD.E. 



wino-coverts pale reddisli brown, clouded with darker brown ; 

 quill-featliers dark brown ; wing-coverts and tertials edged 

 with pale brown ; upper tail-coverts decidedly rufous ; tail- 

 feathers uniform brown ; the tail rounded, the outside feather 

 on each side being three-eighths of an inch shorter than those 

 of the middle. Chin and throat white ; breast, belly, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts, buff colour, darkest on the flanks ; 

 under surface of tail-feathers dusky brown ; legs, toes, and 

 claws, pale brown. 



The whole length of the bird four inches and three-quar- 

 ters. This bird is as large in the body as the Grasshopper 

 Warbler ; but its tail-feathers are much shorter. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the longest quill-feather, two inches 

 and a half: the first feather very short ; the second and third 

 equal in length, and the longest in the wing. 



The female has less of the riifous colour in the upper tail- 

 coverts ; and the whole of the under surface from the chin to 

 the vent is darker in colour than the same parts in the male, 

 and has a dingy appearance from being mixed with dusky 

 brown. 







