82 GULDENSTADT'S BED START. 



like spot extending from tlie third to the tenth feathers. The 

 secondaries have in the middle of the inner colours a white, though 

 not an equally conspicuous spot. The second primary is like the 

 seventh, the third like the fifth. Beak black, with stiff black hairs 

 round the angle of the mouth; throat yellow; iris brown; the tolerably 

 long feet are black. After the autumn moult the plumage is much 

 plainer. 



The female has the colours of the under wing coverts and tail 

 like the male, but paler; the whole body is brownish ash grey; on 

 the under part of the body and about the sides lighter; under tail 

 feathers rusty. 



The unknown young birds we must suppose to be similar to other 

 ^'Eothlings," clear spotted and streaked. 



Figured by Heinrich Graf Von der Miihle, in his "Monog. der 

 Europ. Sylvien." 



