610 BLACK-CHEEKED WARBLER. 



LARGER than S. rubicola : the head, neck, and 

 upper parts of the body, are black; the edges of 

 the feathers of the back and wing-coverts tawny : 

 the quills near the body have a white spot on 

 them : the whole of the under parts white, with a 

 stripe passing over the lower part of the neck like 

 a half collar : the breast is reddish : the tail en- 

 tirely black : it has much the appearance of the 

 Stone Chat Warbler. Its native place is Mada- 

 gascar. 



BLACK-CHEEKED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia chrysops.) 



SY. rufo^fusca subtus alba, genis nigris, sub oculis stngajlava. 

 Red-brown Warbler, beneath white, with the cheeks black, and 



beneath the eyes a yellow stripe. 

 Sylvia chrysops. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. liv. 5. 

 Black-cheeked Warbler. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 248. 31. 



LARGER than the Domestic Finch : beak dusky : 

 tongue jagged at the tip : the plumage above 

 dusky brown : through the eye an irregular stripe 

 of yellow: cheeks and sides of the head, surround- 

 ing the eye, black : chin blue-grey : under parts 

 -of the body dirty white. Inhabits New South 

 Wales. 



