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SUB- ALPINE WABBLEB. 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Family SYLVIID^. 



Genus Sylvia. (Latham.) 



SUB-ALPINE WARBLER. 



Sylvia suh-alpina. 



Sylvia sub-alpina. 



passerina, 



leucopogon, 



bonelli, 



mystacea, 

 Curruca passerina, 

 Fauvette sub-alpine, or 

 Bee-fin Passerinette, 

 Weisshdr tiger, 

 Sterpazzolina, 

 Passerine Warbler, 



Bonelli. 



Temminck; Man., i., p. 214. 



Bonaparte; Consp. Gen. Av. 



SCHLEGEL, 1844. MtJHLE. 



Gmelin; Syst., i, p. 954. 

 Latham; Ind., 2, p. 508, 

 Temminck; Man., 1835, p. 131. 

 Degland, 1 844. 

 Meyer and Wolff; Orn. Tasch., 



3, P- 91- 

 Savi; Orn. Tosc., vol. i., p. 257. 

 ScHiNz; Fauna Europ. 

 Keyserling and Blasius. 

 Menetries; Cat., p. 34. 

 Z. Gerbe; Diet, un d'Hist. Nat., 18 



Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Of the Italians. 

 Latham. 



Specific Characters. — The inner barb of the primaries and secondaries 

 edged with white in the male, unicolorous olive brown in the female. Edge 

 of carpal joint in both sexes white. Length of an adult male from M. E. 

 Verreaux, four inches and a half; from carpus to tip two inches and two 

 tenths; tail two inches and three tenths; tarsus four fifths of an inch. 

 Female about same size. 



