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SYLVIAD.E. 



lower part of the neck, the breast, belly, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts, pale brownish white, tinged with rose colour ; 

 under surface of wings and tail-feathers grey ; legs pale wood- 

 brown ; toes and claws darker brosvn. 



The whole length five inches and a half. From the carpal 

 joint to the end of the wing, two inches and five-eighths : the 

 first quill short ; the second and third equal in length, and 

 the longest in the wing. 



The female is without the rosy tints on the breast, and the 

 other colours of the plumage are less pure. 



Young birds have a light coloured space between the beak 

 and the eye ; the irides yellowish brown ; the outer tail- 

 feather on each side tinged with red. 



The nest of the Nightingale, remarkable for the materials 

 of which it is usually composed, as described at page 276, is 

 represented in the vignette below, for Avant of sufficient space 

 at the conclusion of the account of that bird. 



