'206 SYLVIAD.E. 



Red-brown Accentor longitudinally striped with red ; beneath 

 isabella colour ; the breast varied with brown ; the eyebrows 

 yellow ; the crown, occiput, and ears black in the male; or 

 brown in thefemale. 



Dalmatian Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. 15. 



Inhabits the south of Europe. Length five inches 

 and a half: beak yellow at the base, with a brown 

 point : top of the head and the occiput black ; be- 

 neath the eye a broad band of the same, ending on 

 the ear : over the eye from the beak, a yellow super- 

 ciliary line passing to the nape : body above and sca- 

 pulars reddish-ash, marked with longitudinal streaks 

 of brick red : wings edged with reddish-ash : and two 

 series of yellowish points across the wing, forming a 

 double band : tail brown, the shafts reddish-brown : 

 the under parts of the body are isabella-colour, varied 

 on the breast with brown spots, and on the sides with 

 reddish-ash. The female has the head, occiput, and 

 ears brown ; in other respects she resembles the male. 



Sp. 3. Ac. modularis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. i. 249. 



Sylvia modularius. Steph. x. 661. — Britain and other parts of 

 Europe. 

 Sp. 4. Ac. Calliope. 



T urdus Calliope. Steph. x. 644. — Northern Asia. 



GENUS XCIX— PRUNELLA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum gracile, rectum, 

 subulatum, acutum, mar- 

 ginibus introrsum curva- 

 tis : mandibulcs aequales ; 

 superior ad apicem paulo 

 inclinata, laciniata. 



Beak slender, straight, subu- 

 lated, acute, the margins 

 internally curved : the 

 mandibles equal ; the tipper 

 a little inclined towards 

 the tip, and laciniated. 



