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WARBLER. 



25. 



ALPINE W. 



Description, 



Place. 



La Fauvette des Alpes, Buf. elf. v. p. 156. pi. 10. — PL enl. 668. f. x. 



ClZE of the Bunting: length feven inches. Bill blackifh j 

 the bafe of the under mandible yellow : the upper part of 

 the head and neck cinereous grey : back the fame, mixed with 

 brown : wing coverts blackifh, tipped with white ; fecond quills 

 brown, with the outer edges pale rufous ; the prime one the 

 fame, with whitifh edges : the upper tail coverts brown, edged 

 with greenifh grey, and towards the tip pale rufous : the tail is 

 rather forked ; all the feathers .marked with a pale rufous fpot 

 on the inner fide at the tip : the throat is white, fpotted with 

 brown: breaft cinereous grey; and the reft of the under parts 

 grey, with a mixture of rufous and white : the legs yellowifh. 



This fpecies inhabits the Alps, and the high mountains of 

 Auvergne and Dauphiny, and has not been before defcribed: they 

 keep within thefe limits, except the extreme fnows drive them 

 from thence: are feen moftly on the ground, or on a ftone, feldom 

 perched on trees, and are very ihy birds. 



26. 



PATAGONIAN 



W. 



Description. 



Lev. Muf. 



fT* HIS is a large fpecies : length nine inches. Bill one inch 

 and a quarter, a little bent at the tip ; colour black, with 

 cinereous edges : the upper parts of the body, and tail, are ci- 

 nereous ; beneath paler, marked with white ftreaks : chin and 

 throat quite white : over the eye a ftreak of the fame, reaching 

 on each fide almoft to the hind head: the wings dark alb-colour, 

 marked with pale brown, and a bar of the fame acrofs the 



coverts : 



