WHITE-COLLARED WARBLER. 695 



also : the greater coverts and quills brown, with 

 pale margins : the tail is cuneiform in shape, and 

 of a very singular construction ; for the end of 

 each feather, for about one third of its length, 

 is almost bare of webs, ending in a point; the four 

 middle feathers are ferruginous ; the other red- 

 dish brown, with the ends white: the legs are 

 brown, one inch in length. Inhabits Terra del 

 Fuego." 



WHITE-COLLARED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Tschecantschia.) 



SY. supra nigricahs, sultus jerruginea, capite atro, nucha albi- 



cante, torque maculaque alarum oblonga albis, dor so nigro. 

 Warbler above dusky, beneath ferruginous ; with the head dusky; 



the nape whitish ; the collar, and oblong spot on the wings, 



white ; back black. 



Sylvia Tschecantschia. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 552. 161. 

 Motacilla Tschecantschia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 997. Lepecli. 



Trav, 2. 186. 

 White-collared Warbler. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 245. 19. 



INHABITS Siberia : the plumage above is dusky : 

 the head is black : the nape of the neck whitish ; 

 beneath which is a white collar : the back is black : 

 the wings are ornamented with an oblong white 

 spot : the under parts of the body are ferruginous. 



