SYLVIADiE. 211 



Ash-coloured Whitethroat, beneath rufous- white ; the region of 

 the eyes white, surrounded by black ; the back rufous ; the 

 throat white; the base of the beak yellow, its tip black. 



Sylvia conspicillata. Temm. Man. d'Om. 2 Edit. i. 210. Temm. 

 PI. Col. 6.f. L— Spectacle Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii, 

 p. 110. 



Inhabits Southern Europe. Length four inches 

 and a half: beak yellow at the base, and black at the 

 point : irides brown : crown and cheeks ash-coloured : 

 between the beak and eye black, surrounding the 

 space round the latter, which is white : beak rufous : 

 wings dusky ; their coverts edged with rufous : throat 

 clear white : the rest of the under parts reddish- 

 white, inclining to rufous on the sides : tail rounded 

 at the end, dusky, the outer feather wholly white ; 

 the third white at the tip : legs pale yellow. The 

 female nearly agrees with the male in colour. 



Sp. 15. Cu. garrula. Brisson. 



Sylvia Curruca. Steph. v. x. p. 580. — Europe. 

 Sp. 16. Cu. passerina. 



Sylvia passerina. Steph. v. x. p. 745. Temm. PI. Col. 24. 

 f. 1. — Europe. 



Sp. 1 7. Cu. sylviella. 



Sylvia sylviella. Steph. v. x. p. 599. — England. 

 Sp. 18. Cu. nisoria. Beckstein. 

 Cu. griseo-Jusca , infra albida ; hypochondriis griseo undidatis, 



bast caudcs maculis griseis. 

 Grey-brown Whitethroat, whitish beneath ; the sides waved with 



griseous, and the base of the tail spotted with the same. 

 Sylvia nisoria. Temm. Man. d'Om. 2 Edit. i. 200. — Barred 



Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 12. 



Inhabits Northern Europe. Length six inches 

 and a half: beak brown : irides yellow : head, cheeks, 



