656 BLUE-STRIPED WARBLER. 



LENGTH nearly five inches : beak dusky : fore- 

 head, upper part of the back, wings, and tail, deep 

 black: rest of the plumage blue: legs grey: it 

 varies in having the throat black, and the head 

 blue, in other respects the same : another variety 

 has been observed with the head plain blue, and 

 the rest of the plumage similar to the first de- 

 scribed. Inhabits Guiana. 



BLUE-STRIPED WARBLER. 

 ( Sylvia lineata. ) 



SY. subtus ccerulea, linea alba a pectore ad crissum producta, 



verticis macula longitudine fronteque cceruleis, 

 Warbler beneath blue, with a white stripe from the breast to the 



vent, and the forehead and longitudinal spot on the crown 



blue. 



Sylvia lineata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 546. 145. 

 Motacilla lineata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 990. 

 Pitpit a coeffe bleue. Buffi Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 342. 

 Blue-striped Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 504. 140. 



THE Blue-striped Warbler inhabits Cayenne : 

 its beak and legs are black : the forehead is of a 

 deep bright blue, passing over each eye to the 

 middle of the back : on the top of the head is a 

 longitudinal blue spot : on the breast begins a 

 white stripe that reaches to the vent, and increases 

 in width as it passes backward : the rest of the 

 under parts are blue. 



