PERSIAN WARBLER. 633 



yellow: tail-coverts ash, tipped with olive: tail 

 black, edged with dull white : the three exterior 

 feathers with a white mark near the tip. 



This bird passes through Pensylvania in October, 

 when it is very abundant, though rare in the 

 spring : it frequents marshy places amongst wil- 

 lows : the male has a slight warble : about the 

 first or second of November it retires. 



PERSIAN WARBLER. 

 (Sylria Sunamisica.) 



SY. cinereo-rufescens, mento gulaque nigris, ptctore abdomineque 

 rufescentibus, pennarum apice albo, crisso nivco, rectricibus in- 

 termediisfuscis, later alibusfulvis. 



Cinereous-red Warbler, with the chin and throat black ; the 

 breast and belly reddish, the tips of the feathers white ; the 

 vent pure white ; the middle tail-feathers brown, and outer 

 ones fulvous. 



Sylvia sunamisica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 552. 166. 



Motacilla sunamisica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 9^8. Gmel. It. 4. 

 181. 182. 



Persian Warbler. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 246. 24. 



THE prevailing colour of the Persian Warbler is 

 reddish ash : the wing-coverts and quills are white 

 on the outer margins and tips : the eyebrows are 

 white : the chin and throat black : the breast and 

 belly are pale rufous, the feathers tipped with 

 white : the two middle tail-feathers are brown, 

 the rest fulvous : the vent is white. This species 

 is a native of the alpine parts of Persia. 



