THE DARTFORD WARBLER 



The adult male Dartford Warbler is sooty brown above, 

 shading into dark slate-grey on the head ; the wings are 

 marked with pale brown ; the tail is dark slate-grey, like 

 the head, but the outer feathers are marked with white. 

 The under parts are chestnut-brown, flecked with white 

 on the throat, and merging into white on the abdomen ; 

 the under tail-coverts are grey, tipped with white. The 

 female is duller than the male, and the under parts are 

 very much paler and more uniform in tint. Bill dark 

 brown, nearly black, paler at the base of the lower 

 mandible ; tarsi and toes pale brown ; irides orange- 

 yellow. Length 5 inches. The nestlings are browner 

 above and buff below. 



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