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xiv. p. 564), which has a slightly more rounded wing ; althea, 

 Hume (Stray Feath. vii. p. 60), a large form, which I have 

 not yet seen; and minula*, Hume (Stray Fcath. i. p. 198), a 

 desert-form, of a pale isabelline colour. 



The Spectacled Warbler stands as Sylvia conspicillata, 

 Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 210 (1820), ex Marmora, MS. 



The Desert-Warbler stands as Sylvia nana, Ehr. Symb. 

 Phys. Aves, fol. cc (1829). 



The Subalpine Warbler stands as Sylvia subalpina, Temm. 

 Man. d'Orn. i. p. 214 (1820), ex Bonelli, MS. 



Blanford's Warbler, Sylvia blanfordi, Seebohm, P. Z. S. 

 1878, p. 979, appears to be a good species, intermediate 

 between S. curruca and S. rubescens and S. melanocephala, 

 differing from the former in having a darker head, a more 

 rounded wing, and a longer tail, and from the two latter in 

 having darker legs and feet, a more rounded wing, and darker 

 outside tail-feathers. 



The Sardinian Warbler stands as Sylvia melanocephala 

 (Gmel.) (Syst. Nat. i. p. 970, 1788, ex Cetti). 



Marmora's Warbler must, I think, stand as Sylvia sarda, 

 Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 204 (1820), ex Marm. MS.f It has 

 a doubtful claim to bear the name of Sylvia moschita, Gmel. 

 (Syst. Nat. i. p. 970) . Gmelin takes his description from 

 Cetti's Ucc. di Sard. p. 218 (1776). After describing the 

 bird upon which Gmelin founded his Motacilla melanocephala , 

 Cetti proceeds, " Ad un uccelletto lungo non piu di 5 pollici, 

 di color piombino e incappellato andr* esso una d'un cap- 

 pellino rosseggiante, danno i Sardi il nome di moschita, o 

 come altri dicono noschita. }J 



There can be no question that this is intended to apply to 

 the bird hitherto known as Sylvia sarda. There can scarcely 

 be a doubt that Gmelin's name has the priority of that of 



* Probably a misprint for " minuta" there being no such Latin word 

 as " minula." EDD. 



t Temminck calls this bird "Sylvia sarda, Marmora," and refers to 

 an article by Marmora in the " Annales de 1' Academic de Turin, 28 Aout, 

 1819." But at the close of Marmora's article on Sylvia cetti (Mem. Ace. 

 Sci. Torino, xxv. p. 254) Bonelli adds a note that the paper thus quoted 

 by Temminck was never published. 



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