CITRINE WARBLER. 601 



Ficedula Borbonica. Briss. Orn. 3. 510. 60. pL 28. f. 3. 

 Petit Simon. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 280. 

 Figuier de 1'isle de Bourbon. Buff. PI. Enl. 705. f. 2. 

 Bourbon Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 475. 92. 



THE Bourbon Warbler flies in flocks : it feeds 

 on insects : its nest is formed in the spring, of dried 

 plants, lined with hair : it lays three blue eggs : 

 it is a native of Madagascar and the Isle of Bour- 

 bon : it is the size of the White-eyed Warbler : 

 its beak, legs, and upper parts of its body, are 

 grey-brown : the quills and tail plain brown, edged 

 with grey-brown : the under parts of the plumage 

 dirty yellowish grey. 



CITRINE WARBLER. 

 ( Sylvia citrina. ) 



, supra atro-striata, gems, gutture pectoreque albis, cauda 



iiigra apicejlava. 

 Yellow Warbler, above striped with dusky, with the cheeks, 



throat, and breast, white ; the tail black, tipped with yellow. 

 Sylvia citrina. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 529. 76. 

 Motacilla citrina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 979. 

 Citrine Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 464. 73. 



" SIZE of a Wren: length three inches and a 

 half: beak three quarters of an inch long, straight, 

 and black : irides very pale blue : plumage above 

 yellow, streaked with dusky : sides of the head, 

 beneath the eye, fore-part of the neck, and breast, 



