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adult in the summer- and winter-plumage; very correctly and deli- 
cately executed. 
Pirate VI. Of Marmora’s Warbler,—Curruca sarda,—le Bec- 
fin Sarde, F.,—a male and female are here exquisitely delineated. 
Closely allied, in plumage and the naked circle which surrounds the 
eye, to C_—Sylvia—melanocephala, it may be distinguished by the 
more weak and slender structure of the bill; by the mere edging 
with white, of the exterior tail-feathers,—whereas, in C. melanoce- 
phala, all the exterior barb, and the extremity of the two first fea- 
thers are white ;—and by the less deep and decided black colouring of 
the head. This species, a native of Sardinia, was first described by 
the Chevalier Marmora, in August, 1819, in the Annals of the Aca- 
demy of Turi. It inhabits wild and uncultivated districts ; and is 
exclusively insectivorous. Nidification unknown. 
PiarTe VII. A splendid figure of the Short-eared Owl,—Otus— 
olim Striz—brachyotos,—Hibou brachiote, F’r.,—Kurzbhrige Oh- 
reule, G. The synonyms of this “creature of many names,” are 
perplexingly numerous. It is the Striw accipitrina, arctica, bra- 
chyura, palustris, stridula, tripennis, and ulula, of sundry writers ; 
Ulula brachyotos, of MacGillivray,*—by whom a most minute and 
accurate description has been given, of its structure, characters, and 
habits ;—and Asio ulula, of Mr. Neville Wood. We learn, on the 
authority of Sir W. Jardine,+ that this species breeds in Scotland; 
that the nest is formed on the ground among heath, and its bottom 
seraped until the fresh earth appears. On this the eggs, five in 
number, are deposited, without lining or cover of any description. 
Priave VIII. The Cetti Warbler,—le Bec-fin bouscarle, ou Cetti, 
Fr. A native of Sardinia and Italy; but never yet captured, as 
Temminck supposes, in England. Non-migratory and insectivorous. 
Nearly allied, in figure and action, to the true Wrens; in other cha- 
racters, to the Reedlings: and hence provisionally ranged, by Mr. 
Gould, among the Salicaria. Two exquisite figures of the adult 
bird. 
Prats IX. Eye has rarely gazed on a more strikingly beautiful 
production of the pencil, than the figure here exhiblted, of the Rough- 
legged Buzzard,— Buteo—olim Falco—lagopus,—la Buse pattué, 
Fr.,—Rauhfiissiger Busard, G. From its congener, the Common 
Buzzard, which it, in other respects, very closely resembles, this 
* See Descriptions of the Rapacious Birds of Great Britain, p. 412. 
+ See his edition of Wilson’s American Ornithology, vol. ii, p. 64. 
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