292 SYLVIAD^B. 



The beak is brown ; from the gape to the eye a brown 

 streak; irides brown; from the top of the eye a broad 

 streak of yellowish white passes backward over the ear- 

 coverts ; the ear- co verts dark brown ; the top of the head 

 streaked longitudinally with dark and light brown, and 

 thus mixed is darker than the plumage of the nape, form- 

 ing a hood : back and wing-coverts pale reddish brown, 

 clouded with darker brown ; quill-feathers dark brown ; 

 wing-coverts and tertials edged with pale brown; upper 

 tail-coverts decidedly rufous ; tail-feathers uniform brown ; 

 the tail rounded, the outside feather on each side being 

 three-eighths of an inch shorter than those of the middle. 

 Chin and throat white ; breast, belly, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts, buff colour, darkest on the flanks ; under sur- 

 face of tail-feathers dusky brown ; legs, toes, and claws, 

 pale brown. 



The whole length of the bird four inches and three- 

 quarters. This bird is as large in the body as the Grass- 

 hopper Warbler ; but its tail-feathers are much shorter. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the longest quill- 

 feather, two inches and a half: the first feather very 

 short; the second and third equal in length, and the longest 

 in the wing. 



The female has less of the rufous colour in the upper 

 tail- coverts ; and the whole of the under surface from the 

 chin to the vent is darker in colour than the same parts in 

 the male, and has a dingy appearance from being mixed 

 with dusky brown. 



