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AFRICAN WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Africana.) 



SY. nigra, pennarum margine rufo-griseo, subtus rufo albida, ver- 

 tice rufo. nigricante maculato, gula stria utrinque longitudinal! 

 nigra, rectricibusfuscis rufo marginatis. 



Black Warbler, with the edges of the feathers red-grey, beneath 

 reddish white ; the crown of the head red, spotted with 

 dusky ; the throat with a longitudinal black stripe on each 

 side ; and the tail-feathers brown, edged with red. 



Sylvia africana. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 518. 32. 



Motacilla africana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 958. 



Curruca naevia Capitis Bonae Spei. Briss. Orn. 3. 3QO. 1O. pi. 

 22. f. 2. 



Fauvette tachetee du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. 

 Nat. Ois. 5. 160. 



African Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 436. 28. 



THE African Warbler is rather more than seven 

 inches in length : its beak is grey brown : the 

 crown of its head is rufous, and striped with 

 dusky : the hind part of the neck, the back, and 

 scapulars, are black, with rufous grey edges : the 

 quills, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the same, 

 but edged more deeply with rufous : the throat is 

 ornamented with a longitudinal black streak on 

 each side : the under parts of the body dirty 

 rufous white; the sides sometimes dashed with 

 dusky : the tail slightly wedged ; its four middle 

 feathers brown, with reddish margins ; the four 

 outer ones rufous outwardly, with brown shafts : 

 legs grey brown. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



