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AWATCHA WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Awatcha.) 



Sv.fusca, gula pectoreque albis nigro-maculatis, remigibus primo- 

 ribus margine albis, rectricibus basi aurantiis. 



Brown Warbler, with the throat and breast spotted with black ; 

 the primary quills edged with white, and the base of the tail- 

 feathers orange. 



Sylvia Awatcha. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 553. 167. 



Motacilla Awatcha. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 986. 



Awatcha Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 422. T. Lath. Syn. 

 Sup. 184. 150. 



THE Awatcha Warbler has the crown of the 

 head, and upper parts of the neck and body, deep 

 brown : from the nostrils to the eye an oblique 

 stripe of white : throat white, its sides spotted 

 with black : breast also white, sprinkled with spots 

 of black : sides of the body rusty : middle of the 

 belly and margins of the greater quills pure white: 

 base of the five outer tail-feathers deep orange, 

 tips brown : the two middle feathers totally brown. 

 Inhabits Kamtschatka. 



