666 VARIABLE WARBLER. 



THIS species has the whole of its upper parts 

 pale blue ; the quills and inner tail-feathers dark- 

 est : the under parts are grey : its legs and beak 

 are brown : it is in length four inches and a quarter. 

 Inhabits North America. 



VARIABLE WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia versicolora. ) 



Si.fusco-nebulosa subtus albo-ccerulescens t rectricibus duabus in- 



termediis Juscis , lateralibus rubris upice albis. 

 Clouded-brown Warbler, beneath blueish white, with the two 



middle tail-feathers brown, the lateral ones red, tipped with 



white. 



Sylvia versicolora. Lath. 2nd. Orn. Sup. Ivi. 14. 

 Variable Warbler. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 250. 40. 



UPPER parts of the plumage brown, clouded 

 with purplish red : below blueish white : the two 

 middle tail-feathers brown ; the rest purplish red, 

 tipped with white : beak black : legs pale brown. 

 Native of New South Wales. 



