76 LE88E11 RUFOUS WARBLER. 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Family SYLVIID^. 



Genus Aedon. ( Boie.J 



Generic Characters. — Bill long and straight, with the culmen curved and 

 much compressed at the tip, hardly notched; nostrils supernal, small, and 

 oval; the gape without bristles. Wings with the first quill short, the 

 second nearly as long as the third and fourth, which are longest. Tail 

 long and rounded. Tarsi long, with broad scales in front. Toes short, 

 the inner nearly as long as the outer, which are partly united to the 

 middle toe at their base; claws small. 



LESSER RUFOUS WARBLER. 



Aedon familiaris. 



Sylvia familiaris, Menetries ; Cat., p. 32, No. 60. 



Aedon familiaris, Gray; Hand-list, No. 2980. 



" galactodes, var. /S., Blasius. 



" : minor, Cabanis. 



Salicaria galactodes, Muhle, p. 66. 



Specific Characters. — Head and upper parts, except the tail coverts, darker 

 than in galactodes. Upper tail coverts rufous. Upper tail feathers brown 

 instead of rufous. Lateral tail feathers with a pure white tip, about half 

 the size of that in galactodes, and succeeded by a deep brown double 

 crescentic patch, rather more or less than the white tip, and extending 

 along the proximal end of the outer web of the feather; rest of tail 

 feathers with the white tip less and the dark band larger than in galactodes. 

 Wing extending to half the length of the tail. Comparative measurements 

 with its congener : — A. familiaris, length five inches and eight tenths, wing 

 three inches and two tenths, tail two inches and nine tenths, beak eight 

 tenths, tarsus one inch. A. galactodes, length six inches and eight tenths, 

 wing three inches and three tenths, tail three inches and a half, beak 

 one inch, tarsus one inch. 



