W fA OR OB VL OBR: 
Sylvia afiatica, Ind. Orn. il. p. 554. 174. 
IZE ofa Nightingale: bill dufky, furnifhed with a few hairs at 
the bafe: head and neck black ; lore and chin white: the body 
above brown; beneath-yellowifh, with a few fpots of white on the 
breaft: tail three inchés and three quarters in length, cuneiform ; all 
but the two middle feathers, from the middle to the ends of a pale 
colour. 
This varies in having the forehead, ftreak over the eyes, and all 
the under parts white, and fuch of the tail feathers as are pale in the 
former, are in this quite white. 
Found in the fame places as the two laft. 
‘HIS is pale brown above, beneath dull white: under tail coverts 
yellow: irides red: bill and legs brown. 
Inhabits New South Vales: met with in January. 
IZE and fhape of an Hedge Sparrow: bill black; legs dufky : 
the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, are not greatly dif- 
ferent from that bird, but incline on the rump to ruft colour: all 
the under parts are white, with fagittal ftreaks of black: the top of 
the head is black, marked with the fame figured ftreaks of white, and 
the upper parts of the body with fimilar black ones; from the nof- 
trils, through the eye, and fome way behind it, paffes a ferruginous 
ftripe: tail loofely webbed, and brown. 
Inhabits New South Wales in July; is faid to fing remarkably 
well. | ; 
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ASIATIC 
WwW 
DEscRIPTION. 
Pracez. 
28. 
YELLOW-- 
VENTED 
W. 
DEeEscRipPrion.. 
PLace. 
29. 
STREAKED 
W. 
Descrirrion. 
Prace. 
