202 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



They have sometimes been placed with the True Warblers in the 

 genus Sylvia, but they are totally different in colour from the 

 members of that genus, are inhabitants of dry countries, and 

 have much longer feet than is usual in the genus Sylvia ; they 

 also have the rictal bristles, according to Mr. E. W. Gates, 

 placed in a horizontal row, without any supplementary bristles, 

 as in the above-named genus. 



I. THE RUFOUS WARBLER. AEDON GALACTODES. 



Aedon galactodes (Temm.), Newt. ed. Yarr., i.. p. 355 (1873); 



Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 547, pi. 85 (1874); B. O. U. 



List Br. B., p. 18 (1883) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. ; pt. 



xi. (1889) ; Saunders, Man., p. 67 (1889). 

 Sylvia .galactodes, Seeb., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., v., p. 34 (iSSi); 



id. Br. B., i., p. 418 (1883). 



Adult Male. General colour above light cinnamon-rufous, the 

 whole of the upper surface being uniform, but the rufous 

 colour deepening towards the rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 which incline to darker cinnamon-rufous or light chestnut; 

 the four centre tail-feathers are not tipped with white, but have 

 a blackish-brown spot at the end, reduced to a small shaft-spot 

 on the two middle feathers ; all the other tail-feathers with a 

 broad white spot at the ends, increasing in size on the outer 

 ones,. and having a large, subterminal spot of black ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back, but inclining to whity- 

 brown on their edges ; the greater coverts dusky, inclining to 

 rufous externally and to whity-brown on the margins ; primary 

 coverts and quills dusky-brown, edged with rufous like the 

 back, the secondaries fringed with whitish round their ends ; 

 head like the back, with a creamy buff eyebrow ; a dusky 

 streak from the lores through the eye; sides of face sandy- 

 buff, the ear-coverts a little browner ; a faint moustachial line 

 of dusky brown ; cheeks and under surface of body sandy-buff, 

 inclining to creamy-white on the throat, breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts ; flanks washed with cinnamon, as also the 

 under wing-coverts ; quill-lining rufous ; bill brown, the lower 

 mandible yellowish horn-colour ; feet and claws brown ; iris 

 hazel. Total length, 6-5 inches ; culmen, 6-65 ; wing, 3-45 ; 

 tail, 2 '8; tarsus, n. 





