212 SYLVIAD.'E. 



nape, and back deep cinereous : scapulars and rump 

 tipped with brown and white stripes : wings pale ash : 

 tail the same : the outer feathers tipped with a white 

 spot, which also occupies part of the inner web ; on 

 the next the same, but the spot smaller ; the third 

 and fourth ashy, edged and tipped with white : throat, 

 neck, breast, and sides white, striped across with cine- 

 reous-grey bands : middle of the belly white : the 

 under tail-coverts cinereous, deeply edged with white. 

 The female has the upper parts plainer, and the tail 

 very little marked with white : the young is striped 

 across both above and beneath. 



This bird lays four or five ashy-white eggs, spotted 

 with reddish-ash. 



Sp. 19. Cu. Certhiola. 



Cu ? olivaceo-fmcafusco maculata ; guld, collo antice, ventrisquc 

 medio albls ; hypochondriis, crisso tectricibusque itiferioribus 

 caudcs rujescentibus ; caudd elongatd, cuneald, apice cinered. 



Olive-brown Whitethroat spotted with brown ; with tbe throat, 

 neck before, and middle of the belly white; the sides, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts reddish ; the tail elongated, wedged, its tip 

 ash-coloured. 



Sylvia Certhiola. Temm. Man. iCOrn. 2 Edit. i. 186. — Russian 

 Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 31. 



Inhabits the south of Russia. Length five inches : 

 beak black : plumage above oliverbrown, with oblong 

 dusky brown spots : chin, fore part of the neck, and 

 middle of the belly white : beneath the chin a zone 

 of oval brown specks : sides, belly, and under tail- 

 coverts light rufous, the last with white ends : tail 

 long, greatly cuneiform, the feathers on the upper 

 part tipped with ash-colour ; beneath dusky, at the 



