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WHIN-CHAT WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Rubetra.) 



SY. nigricansy superciliis alois, macula alarum alba, gula pectore- 



quejlavescente. 

 Dusky Warbler, with white eyebrows, a white spot on the wings, 



and the throat and breast yellowish. 

 Sylvia Rubetra. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 525. 58. 

 Motacilla Rubetra. Lin. Syst. Nat. I. 332. 16. Lin. Faun. 



Suec. 255. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 967. 

 Rubetra major sive Rubicola. Briss. Orn. 3. 432, 26. pi. 24. 



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CEnanthe secunda, et Ficedula tertia Aldrovandis. Will. Orn. 



232. 234. Ray. JQ. 77. 

 Grand Traquet ou Tarier. Bu/. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. I'M. Buff. 



PL Enl. 6/8./. 2. 

 Whin-chat. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 158. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 421. 



R. Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi. 3p. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 454. 54. 



Don. Brit. Birds. 2. pi. 60. Lenin. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 10Q. 



Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 140. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Bewick. Brit. 



Birds. 1.231. 



LENGTH five inches: beak black: irides dark 

 hazel : crown of the head, cheeks, hind part of 

 the neck, back, and upper tail-coverts, black, 

 each feather edged with rufous brown, giving the 

 bird a pretty spotted appearance : from the upper 

 mandible a broad white streak passes over the eye 

 on each side to the back of the head, where it 

 almost meets ; from the chin another white streak 

 passes down each side of the neck : wing-coverts 

 and quills dusky black, slightly edged with rufous 

 brown : on the wing, near the shoulder, is a large 



