BLACK-HEADEB SABDINIAN WABBLEB. 



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INSECTIVOE^. 



Famihj SYLVIID^. 



Genus Sylvia, f Latham. J 



BLACK-HEADED SARDINIAN WARBLER. 



Sylvia melanocepJiala. 



Sylvia melanocephala, 



Motacilla melajiocephala, 

 Sylvia ruscicola, 

 Curruca melanocephala, 



Pyrophthalma jnelanocephala, 



Sardinian Warbler, 



Bec-jin milanociphale, or Fauvette 



des fragons, 

 Schwar%kdpjiger Siranch-sanger, 

 Occhiocotio, 

 Occhio Rosso, 



Latham; 1790. 

 Temminck; Man., 1820. 

 Bonaparte; (B. of E.,) 1838. 

 Keyserling and Blasius; 1840. 

 ScHiNZ; Europ. Faun., 1840. 

 Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 

 Degland; 1844. 

 MtJHLE; 1856. 

 Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 

 Vieillot; Diet., 1817, 

 Lesson; Ornith., 1831. 

 Z. Gerbe; 1848. 

 Bonaparte; Consp. Gen. Av. 

 Salvadori; F. d'ltalia. 

 Gould. Bree; ist. ed. 



Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Of the Italians. 

 Salvadori. 



Specific Characters. — Throat white; head black in the male, greyish black 

 in the female; the secondary quills fringed with russet grey; the two external 

 tail quills white on the outer side, with a large spot of the same colour at 

 the extremity of the internal barb; the other tail feathers white only at the 

 tip. 



Length of an adult male sent me by M. E. Verreaux, five inches and a 

 half; from carpus to tip two inches and three tenths ; tail two inches and a 

 half; tarsus seven tenths of an inch. 



