288 SYLVIADA. 
The beak is brown; the base of the under mandible 
paler in colour than the other parts: the irides hazel ; 
the top of the head, back, and wings, greenish brown ; 
the centres of the feathers darker brown, producing a 
spotted appearance: the feathers of the tail graduated and 
of a uniform brown, the ends triangularly pomted. Chin, 
throat, breast, and belly, pale brown, spotted with darker 
brown on the neck and breast; under tail-coverts pale 
brown, streaked along the centre with darker brown ; legs, 
toes, and claws, pale brown. 
The whole length five inches and a half. The wings 
short: from the carpal joint to the end of the longest 
primary, two inches and three-eighths; the first feather 
very short; the second longer than the fifth, but not 
so long as the fourth; the third the longest in the 
wing. 
Females do not differ much from males on the upper 
parts of the body ; but the under parts are destitute of 
the brown spots on the breast, and are of a uniform pale 
brown or buff colour, as described by Mr. Heysham of 
Carlisle from a specimen obtained in that neighbourhood. 
