220 SYLVIAD^. 



Sp. 6. Sy. melanopogon, Tcmm. PL Col. 245. f. 2. 



Sy ? saturate-Jiisca, verl 'ice strigisquc longitudinalibus dor&i uigris ; 



caudd valde cuneata. 

 Deep-brown Warbler with tbe crown and longitudinal dorsal 



stripes black ; the tail greatly wedged. 



Inhabits Italy. Length five inches : beak much 

 compressed, slender, and subulated : wings short : tail 

 moderate : the forehead, top of the head, and occi- 

 put sooty black, the lores with a black dash: the eye- 

 brows white : the nape, the back, the rump, and the 

 wings are reddish-brown ; each feather on the middle 

 of the back having a broad black stripe down the 

 shaft : the wing-coverts are also dusky-black in the 

 middle : the tail is reddish-brown above and ashy 

 beneath : the throat, a portion of the fore part of the 

 neck, and the middle of the belly are white; the rest 

 of the under parts are brownish : the beak is brown 

 at its base, and black at its tip : the legs are brown. 



Sp. 7. Sy? Cayana. Steph. v. x. p. 655. — Dauuria. 



Sp. 8. Sy ? Africana. Steph. v. x. p. 615. — Southern Africa. 



Sp. 9. Sy ? cyanocephala. Steph. v. x. p. 684. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 10. Sylvia speciosa. Temm. PL Col. 293./. 2. 



Sy ? saturate-cyanea, infra cinereo-ca'rulea, crisso albido ; tectri- 



cibus injerioribus caudcc castaneo-rujis ; alis macula alba. 

 Deep-blue Warbler, beneath ashy-blue, with the vent whitish; 



the lower tail-coverts chesnut-red j a white spot on the wings. 



Inhabits Brazil. Tne prevailing colour of the 

 upper parts of the plumage of this species is deep 

 blue ; which also forms a broad edging to the fea- 

 thers of the wings and tail ; the inner webs of the 

 last being black : the fifth and sixth quills have a 



