GARDEN WARBLER. 581 



the tail is brown, with grey edges ; the outer web 

 and tip of each side feather is white ; the rest of 

 the inner web ash-coloured, edged with white : 

 tail slightly forked : legs brown. 



GARDEN WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia hortensis.) 



SY. griseofusca, subtus rufo alba, superciliis albidis, remigibus 

 cinereo fuscis, margine griseis, rectricibus fuscis, extima extus 

 et versus apicem intus albida. 



Grey-brown Warbler, beneath reddish white, with the eyebrows 

 whitish; the quills grey-brown, edged with grey; the tail- 

 feathers fuscous, the outer feather whitish on the outer web 

 and towards the tip within. 



Sylvia hortensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 507. 3. 



Motacilla hortensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q55. 



Curruca. Briss. Orn. 3. 372. 2. 



Fauvette. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 117 . pi. J.Buff. PL Enl. 



579./.1- 



Petty-chaps. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 413. 3. 'Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 

 234. l.Lemin. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 100. Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 230. 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Mont. Sup. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 

 209.? 



THIS is in length six inches : weight about five 

 drachms : beak dusky above ; the base of the under 

 mandible yellowish : irides hazel : orbits white : 

 the prevailing colour of the upper parts of the 

 plumage light brown, inclining to olive: quills 

 dusky, edged with olive : beneath the ear a dash 



