BARRED WARBLER, 



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are, like them, principally distributed at the larger end of the egg. They 

 vary in length from '9 to "8 inch, and in breadth from '65 to "6 inch. 



The adult male Barred Warbler in spring plumage has the general 

 colour of the upper parts brownish grey, browner on the quills, wing- 

 coverts, and innermost secondaries, and slightly greyer on the head, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail ; the wing-coverts, the innermost secondaries, 

 the outside tail-feathers, the feathers of the rump and the upper tail- 

 coverts, and occasionally the scapulars, forehead, and lower back are more 

 or less distinctly margined and broadly tipped with greyish white, the pale 

 tips being emphasized by a narrow transverse subterminal dark brown bar ; 

 similar bars are present more or less distinctly on nearly every feather of 

 the underparts, which are otherwise greyish white, slightly browner on the 

 breast, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; the axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts are buffish white, generally transversely barred with dark 

 grey. Bill dark brown above, pale at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 legs, feet, and claws pale slaty brown; irides pale yellow. The female 

 scarcely differs from the male. After the autumn moult the upper parts 

 are slightly browner, and the barring, both above and below, is more 

 distinct. Birds of the year are browner both above and below, and the 

 bars on the under surface are generally confined to the under tail- coverts. 



