YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 679 



THIS bird inhabits Christmas Island: it is as 

 large as the Domestic Finch : its beak is dusky : 

 the prevailing colour of its upper parts is testa- 

 ceous brown, the rump palest : the quiJls and tail 

 are brown, the latter slightly forked, and crossed 

 with obsolete bars : the under parts of the body 

 are white : it has a short but not unpleasing 

 warble. 



YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia flavicollis.) 



SY. grisea, subtus alba, ad latera nigro-varia, fronte, fascia ocu- 

 lari rectricibusque nigris, lateribus interiori latere albidis, ma- 

 cula utrinquead basin rostri guttureque Jlavis. 



Grey Warbler, beneath white, towards the sides varied with 

 black ; the forehead, stripe through the eyes, and tail, black; 

 the lateral feathers white on their inner webs ; a spot on each 

 side the base of the beak and the throat yellow. 



Sylvia flavicollis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 518. 35. Vieil. Qis.de 

 lAmer. Sept. 2. 45. Wils.Amer. Orn. 2. 64. 



Motacilla flavicollis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 959. 



Parus carolinensis griseus. Briss. Orn. 3. 563. 10. 



Mesange gris & gorge jaune. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 454. 



La Fauvette gris a gorge jaune. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 2. 

 45. 



Yellow- throated Creeper. Catesb. Carol, l.pl. 62. 



Yellow-throated Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 400. 280. Lath. 

 Gen. Syn. 4. 437. 31. Wils* Amer. Orn. 2. 64. xui.f. 6. 



THE Yellow-throated Warbler is five inches and 

 a quarter in length : its beak is black ; forehead 



