SYLVIA annulosa. 

 White-eyed Warhler. 



Generic Character. — See PI. 139. 



Specific Character. 

 S. olivaceo-viridis, infrh albescens; jugulo flaxescente ; palpehris 

 plumis niveis insignibus. 



Olive-green, beneath whitish ; throat yellowish ; eyes encircled by 

 a ring of snowy feathers. 



Sylvia Madagascariensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 533. Gm. 1. 981. 

 White-eyed Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 475. Gen. Zool. 10. 2. 720. 

 Ficedula Madagascariensis minor. Briss. Ois. 4. p. 498. t. 28./. 2. 

 {male.) Briss. Orn. 1. 446. 



A. DELICATE ring of snow-white feathers encircles the eyes 

 of this pretty bird. It is far from being peculiar to Mada- 

 gascar (as Dr. Latham's name of Madagascariensis would seem 

 to imply), but is spread over a wide extent of the eastern 

 hemisphere ; being found both in the Isle of France, the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and Madras. The name, therefore, is 

 peculiarly inapplicable ; but this is not all : for we find that 

 the same author, a few pages after, has given this identical 

 name to another very different bird ; the same error is trans- 

 ferred into Shaw's Zoology. 



Figure, the size of life : colour above, olive green ; ears 

 and sides of the head the same : chin, throat, and under tail 

 covers yellow ; breast cinereous, changing to dusky brown 

 on the flanks ; the middle of the body whitish ; between the 

 eye and bill a velvet-black line, which forms a partial margin 

 to the snowy feathers of the eyelids ; wings and tail dusky 

 black, margined with olive. 



Very indifferent figures of both sexes will be found in 

 Vaillant's African birds ; from his description it seems to 

 be a gregarious species. I regret not being able, at this 

 moment, to refer to the work. 



PI. 164. 



