RUFOUS WA.RBLER. 



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PAS8ERES. 



AEDON GALACTODES (Temminck*). 



THE RUFOUS WARBLER. 



Salicaria galactotes. 



AEDON, F. Eoie\. Bill long and strong, with the culmen curved and much com- 

 pressed at the tip, hardly notched ; nostrils supernal, small and oval ; the gape 

 without bristles. Wings with the first quill short, the second nearly as long as 

 the third and fourth, which are longest. Tail long and rounded. Tarsi long, 

 with broad scales in front. Toes short, the inner nearly as long as the outer, 

 which are partly united to the middle toes at their base ; claws small. 



FOR the knowledge of the first occurrence of this hand- 

 some bird in England, we are indebted to Mr. Borrer, who 

 has already laid this work under many obligations by his 

 communications, and in the ' Zoologist ' (p. 4511) stated 



* >>'/// /-/a r/alactotes (by mistake), Tennninck, Man. d'Orn. Ed. 2, i. p. 182 

 (1820). 



t Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



