THE DARTFORD WARBLER 
The adult male Dartford Warbler is sooty brown above, 
shading into dark slate-grey on the head; the wings are 
marked with pale brown ; the tail is dark slate-grey, like 
the head, but the outer feathers are marked with white. 
The under parts are chestnut-brown, flecked with white 
on the throat, and merging into white on the abdomen ; 
the under tail-coverts are grey, tipped withwhite. The 
female is duller than the male, and the under parts are 
very much paler and more uniform in tint. Bill dark 
brown, nearly black, paler at the base of the lower 
mandible ; tarsi and toes pale brown; irides orange- 
yellow. Length 5 inches. ‘The nestlings are browner 
above and buff below. 
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