DAUURIAN WARBLER. 605 



feathers white, with the tip black; the middle 

 feathers entirely black: the under parts of the 

 plumage rich yellow, spotted from the throat 

 downwards with black streaks: vent white: tail 

 slightly forked: wings black, crossed with two 

 transverse white bars : legs brown. This species 

 inhabits the banks of the Miami, near its junction 

 with the Ohio ; it is also found on the Mississippi 

 and in the vicinity of Philadelphia : it delights to 

 sit on the highest branches of the trees. 



DAUURIAN WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia aurorea.) 



SY. subtusfulva, vertice cermceque canis 9 fronte maculaque alarum 

 albidis, gutture atro, rectricibus fulvis, intermediis duabus 

 nigris. 



Warbler beneath fulvous, with the crown and top of the neck 

 hoary ; the forehead and spot on the wings white ; the throat 

 dusky; the tail-feathers fulvous, with the two middle one^ 

 black. 



Sylvia aurorea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 527. 66. 



Motacilla aurorea. Pdll. Trav. 3. 695. 15. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 1.976. 



Dauurian Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 460. 64. 



FREQUENTS the willows in the neighbourhood of 

 the river Selinga, in Siberia, and on the confines 

 of China: it is a very familiar and common species : 

 it is the size of the Redstart : the forehead is 



