674 RED-TAIL WARBLER. 



INHABITS Gibraltar : size of the Redstart : beak 

 dark brown : forehead, sides of the head, and 

 throat, black : hind head white : top of the head, 

 neck, back, wing-coverts, breast, and upper part 

 of the belly, blue-grey : lower part of the latter 

 white : quills grey-brown, with white margins : 

 rump and tail orange ; all the tips of the feathers 

 of the latter brown ; the two middle feathers en- 

 tirely brown : legs brown. 



RED-TAIL WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Erithracus.) 



SV. dor so remigibusquecinereis 3 abdomine.rectricibusqucrufis, ex- 

 timis duabus cinereis. 



Warbler with the back and quills ash-colour; the belly and tail- 

 feathers rufous, the outer feathers cinereous. 



Sylvia Erithracus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 513. 19. 



Motacilla Erithracus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 335. 35. Lin. Faun. 

 Suec. 258.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 988. 



Phoenicurus torquatus. Briss. Orn. 3. 411. 18. male. 



Phoenicurus. Briss. Orn. 3. 40g. \J. female. 



Rouge-queue & collier. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 180. 



Red-tail. Ray. Syn. 78. 5. 2. Will. Ang. 218. ?. 2. Lath. 

 Gen. Syn. 4. 425. 14. 



LARGER than the Redstart: beak dusky: the 

 top of the head, hind part of the neck and back, 

 scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts, grey : rump 

 rufous: greater wing-coverts and quills grey- 

 brown, margined with rufous : throat and under 



