292 SYLVIADA. 
The beak is brown; from the gape to the eye a brown 
streak ; irides brown; from the top of the eye a broad 
streak of yellowish white passes backward over the ear- 
coverts; the ear-coverts dark brown; the top of the head 
streaked longitudinally with dark and light brown, and 
thus mixed is darker than the plumage of the nape, form- 
ing a hood: back and wing-coverts pale reddish brown, 
clouded with darker brown; quill-feathers dark brown ; 
wing-coverts and tertials edged with pale brown; upper 
tail-coverts decidedly rufous ; tail-feathers uniform brown ; 
the tail rounded, the outside feather on each side being 
three-eighths of an inch shorter than those of the middle. 
Chin and throat white; breast, belly, flanks, and under 
tail-coverts, buff colour, darkest on the flanks; under sur- 
face of tail-feathers dusky brown; legs, toes, and claws, 
pale brown. 
The whole length of the bird four inches and_three- 
quarters. This bird is as large in the body as the Grass- 
hopper Warbler; but its tail-feathers are much shorter. 
From the carpal joint to the end of the longest quill- 
feather, two inches and a half: the first feather very 
short; the second and third equal in length, and the longest 
in the wing. 
The female has less of the rufous colour in the upper 
tail-coverts ; and the whole of the under surface from the 
chin to the vent is darker in colour than the same parts in 
the male, and has a dingy appearance from being mixed 
with dusky brown. 
