754 SUPERB WARBLER. 



THIS dextrous Warbler is only three inches in 

 length, and weighs but ninety grains : it is en- 

 tirely of a light yellow colour. It inhabits India, 

 and is remarkable for the construction of its nest, 

 which is extremely curious : it is composed of 

 two leaves ; the one generally dead, which it fixes 

 at the end of a branch, to the side of a living one, 

 by sewing both together with slender fibres ; the 

 lining is composed of feathers and soft vegetable 

 down : the nest and birds taken together are so 

 buoyant, that the leaves of the slenderest twigs are 

 generally chosen for the purpose, as the nest then 

 becomes less likely to be attacked by predaceous 

 animals ; occasionally two living leaves are sewn 

 together : its eggs are pure white. 



SUPERB WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia cyanea.) 



SY. nigro-cyanea sultus alba, capite nigro-sericeo tumido, sinci- 

 pite genis lunulaque cervicis cceruleo-nitidis, fascia per oculos 

 mgra. 



Black-blue Warbler, beneath white, with the head swelled, and 

 of a silky black ; the hind part of the head, cheeks, and lunule 

 on the top of the neck, of a shining blue ; stripe through the 

 eyes black. 



Sylvia cyanea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 545. 142. 



Motacilla cyanea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 991 . 



Motacilla superba. Shaiv. Nat. Misc. vol. 1. 



Superb Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 501. 137. pi. 53.Sha*v. 

 Nat. Misc. 1. pi. 1O. 



