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SPECTACLED WABBLEB. 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Famili/ SYLVIID^. 



Genus Sylvia, f Latham. J 



SPECTACLED WAEBLER. 



Sylvia conspicillata. 



Sylvia conspicillata. 



Curriica conspicillata, 

 Fauvette a Lunettes, 

 Brillen Seraiichsanger, 

 Sterpazzola di Sardegna, 

 M^ %i%zee, 



De la Marmora; Mem. della Acad. 



di Torino, 1819. 

 Temminck; Man., 1820. 

 Bonaparte; 1838. 

 Keyserling and Blasius; 1840. 

 ScHiNz; Eur. Faun., 1840. 

 Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 

 Degland; 1844. 

 MtJHLE; 1856. 

 Z. Gerbe; Diet., 1848. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Of Savi. 

 Arabic; (Salvin.) 



Specific Characters. — The secondaries broadly fringed Avith red. The two 

 outer tail feathers almost entirely white; the two next on each side only 

 white at the point; first primary shorter than the fifth, but longer than 

 the sixth; the second and third equal and longest. Length of an adult 

 male, sent me by M. E. Verreaux, nearly five inches; carpus to tip two 

 inches and a half; tarsus eight tenths of an inch. 



This beautiful little Warbler was stated by Temminck, in his first 

 edition, to belong exclusively to Sardinia; but, although, limited in 

 its range, it has been discovered in Sicily, Spain, in the States of 

 the Church, and by Count Miihle in Greece. It is also included in 



