626 SIBERIAN WARBLER. 



the head, neck, breast, lesser wing-coverts, quills, 

 and tail, black, all but the two latter, with a yel- 

 low spot on each feather : the middle and greater 

 wing-coverts are edged with yellow, and spotted 

 with white in the middle : the belly and rump are 

 pale rufous, banded with irregular black stripes. 



SIBERIAN WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Montanella.) 



SY. subtestaceafusco-maculata, subtus dilute ochracca, verttcefusca 

 nigro, iuperciliis gulaque ochraceis, auribus nigris. 



Subtestaceous Warbler, spotted with brown; beneath pale ochra- 

 ceous ; with the crown brown black ; the eyebrows and throat 

 ochraceous ; the ears black. 



Sylvia Montanella. Lath. Ind.^ Orn. 2. 526. 60. 



Motacilla Montanella. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 968. 



Siberian Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 456. 56. 



A NATIVE of the Dauurian Forests: rather larger 

 than S. Rubetra : crown of the head dusky : eye- 

 brows yellowish : coverts of the ears black, and 

 situated in an area of grey : back testaceous, with 

 brown spots : wings brown ; the primaries edged 

 with grey, and the secondaries with white: chin 

 sometimes yellowish, at others white: the feathers 

 on the throat with their bases brown : under part& 

 of the body pale ochraceous : tail pale cinereous, 

 the two middle feathers, and the outer one, shorter 

 than the rest. 



