398 



PAS8ERES. 



SYLVim/E. 



HYLVIIDM. 



MELIZOPHILUS UNDATUS (Boddaert*). 



THE DARTFORD WARBLER. 



Melizophilus Dartfordiemis f. 



MELIZOPHILUS, Leach J. Bill long and somewhat broad at the base, compressed 

 in front of the nostrils, the upper mandible overlapping the lower at the sides, 

 and slightly emarginated near the tip ; nostrils basal, subsupernal and longitu- 

 dinal, situated in a large depression ; gape beset with hairs. Eyelids bare and 

 prominent. Wings feeble, somewhat incurved and not reaching much beyond the 

 root of the tail, which is long and graduated ; the first primary small, but com- 

 paratively well-developed ; the second shorter than any of the next four ; the 

 fourth and fifth the longest in the wing. Tarsi strong, scaled in front, and longer 

 than the middle toe ; outer and inner toes nearly equal ; claws moderate. 



THE DARTFORD WARBLER was first made knowa to natu- 

 ralists, and that as an inhabitant of this country, by Dr. 

 Latham, who, having obtained specimens on Bexley Heath, 

 near Dartford, April 10th, 1773, communicated the fact to 



* Motacilla undata, Boddaert, Table des Planches Enlumineez, p. 40, no. 655, 

 fig. 1 (1783). 



t Sylvia dartfordiensis, Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 517 (1790). 

 t Syst. Cat. Mammals and Birds in Brit. Mus. p. 25 (1816). 



