MOOR WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia maura.) 



SY. atra, subtus alia, uropygio lateribmque colli albis, jugulo hi* 



tense ferrugineo, macula alarum basique caudcz albis. 

 Dusky Warbler, beneath white, with the rump and sides of the 



neck white ; the jugulum bright ferruginous ; a spot on the 



wings, and the base of the tail, white. 

 Sylvia maura. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 526. 62. 

 Motacilla maura. Pall. Trav. 2. 708. 17. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 



975. 

 Moor Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 458. 60. 



FIRST described by Pallas, who informs us that 

 it is found amongst the birch-trees that are scat- 

 tered in the forests of Ural, and in the fields be- 

 tween the rivers Tobol and Irtisch, in Russia : it 

 feeds on insects, and places its nest in the deserted 

 habitation of a mouse or other quadruped, in holes 

 of trees: it has a slight resemblance to the Whin 

 Chat, which it equals in size : its head and neck 

 are black, edged with paler : back and base of the 

 wings the same, the latter with grey edges: wing- 

 coverts with an oblique yellowish white stripe j 

 wings brown : rump and base of the tail white : 

 throat ferruginous : sides of the throat, and all the 

 under parts of the body, white : tail black : the 

 female and young have the head grey, varied with 

 brown ; the back the same, and the rest of the 

 plumage much paler. Dr. Latham mentions a 

 bird, which he considers a variety of the above: it 



