444 CLASS AVES. 



sides reddish ; tail very broad, rounded ; length five 

 inches. Sardinia. A Malurus? 



S. Ruppeli, Tem. PI. Col. 245. f. 1. 

 Slate-coloured ; crown and throat black ; streak under 

 the eye and beneath white ; wings and tail blackish- 

 brown ; outer tail-feathers white, with a black spot. 

 Candia. 



S. Melanopogon, Temm. PI. Col. 245.. f. 2. 

 Bill very slender, edges inflexed, deep-brown ; beneath 

 paler, crown and streaks on back black ; streak over eye 

 and throat white ; tail much graduated, blackish. 

 Rome. 



Among the species most attached to dry soils are 

 first distinguished, 



The Black Cap, {Mot. Atricapilla, Lin.) Enl. 580. 1.2. 

 Brown above ; whitish underneath ; a black hood in 

 the male, red in the female, when it is M. Mosquita, 

 Gml. 



Orpheus Warbler. {Sylvia Orphea,Tem.) Enl. 579. f. L 

 One of the largest ; ashy-brown above ; whitish 

 under; white at the edge of the wing ; the external quill 

 of the tail two- thirds white ; the remainder marked 

 with a spot at the end ; the others with an edging. 



The Graf/ Warbler. {Mot. Silvia, Lin.) White-Throat 

 of the English Brit. Zool. PI. 5. f. 4. 



Smaller and more gray than the foregoing ; the beak 

 more slender, but the white spots similarly disposed. 



This is the Silvia Cinerea of Latham, PI. Enl. 

 t. 579. f. 3. and t. 581. f. 1. 



