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STONE-CHAT WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Rubicola.) 



SY. grisea, subtus rufescens, jugulo fascia alba, loris nigris. 

 Grey Warbler, beneath reddish, with a white stripe on the jugu- 



lum, the lores black. 



Sylvia Rubicola. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 523. 49. 

 Motacilla Rubicola. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 332. 17. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 969. 



Rubetra. Briss. Orn. 3. 428. 25. pi. 23./. 1. male. 

 Traquet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 215. pi. 13. Buff. PL Enl. 



67S.f. 1. 

 Stone Smith, Stone Chatter, Moor Titling, or Stone-chat. 



Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 159. Will. Ang. 235. pi. 41. Albin. 



Birds. 3. pi. 52. Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi. 89. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4. 448. 46. Lenin. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 108. Don. Brit. Birds. 



4. /;/. 92. Wale. Syn. 2. pi. ZSQ.Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. 



Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 233. 



A SOLITARY species, weighing about five drams: 

 length five inches and a quarter : beak black : 

 irides dusky : the head and throat black ; on each 

 side the neck, immediately above the wings, is a 

 large white spot : the back and wing-coverts are 

 of a fine velvet black ; the feathers edged with 

 tawny: the quills are dusky, the lesser ones edged 

 on their outer webs with bright ferruginous : the 

 coverts black, slightly tipped and edged with rusty 

 brown, except some of the larger ones near the 

 body, which are of a pure white, forming a large 

 conspicuous spot on the wing : the lower part of 

 the rump and tail-coverts white : the breast deep 



