BARBED WABBLBB. 



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INSECTIVOR^. 



Fcwiily SYLVIID^. 



Genus Sylvia, f Latham. J 



Generic Characters. — Beak slender, compressed on the anterior half; the 

 superior mandible sloped towards the point, the inferior mandible straight. 

 Nostrils basal, lateral, ovoid, and half closed with a membrane. Tarsi 

 longer than the middle toe; three toes in front and one behind, the ex- 

 ternal one united at its base to the middle ; the claw of the hinder toe 

 shorter than the toe, and curved. The first wing primary is very short, 

 or absent, the second a little shorter than the third, or as long; the 

 greater wing coverts much shorter than the primaries; tail extended, 

 unequal, rounded or square. 



BARRED WARBLER. 



Sylvia nisoria. 



Sylvia nisoria, 



Nisoria tmdafa, 

 Curruca undata. 

 Bee-fin raye, or 



Fauvette eperviere, 

 Sperber Grasmilcke, 

 Celega padova?ia, 



Bechstein. Meyer and Wolff. 

 Temminck. Vieillot. Cuvier. 

 Keyserling and Blasius. 

 ScHiNZ. Schlegel. Degland, 

 Bonaparte. Naumann. 

 Gerbe; Diet., 1848, 



Of the French. 



German. 



Savi. 



Specific Characters. — Secondaries fringed with light grey; the middle tail 

 quills and under coverts broadly bordered with white; the lateral tail quills 

 with a white spot at the extremities and inner borders. Length of adult 

 female from M. Verreaux, which is figured, seven inches; carpus to tip 

 -three inches and a half; tail two inches and a half; tarsus one inch. 



