SARDINIAN WARBLER. 
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The first primary is short ; the second, third, and fourtli 
longer and equal in size. Eyelashes brick red; the 
naked and swollen eyelids cinnabar red. Beak, tolerably 
large and strong, is black. Iris nut brown; feet blackish 
brown. 
The female has the whole upper parts of the body 
brownish grey; wing and tail feathers brownish black, 
with a somewhat brighter edge ; the white of the external 
tail quill is shaded with russet and grey. Throat white, 
and rest of under parts of the body whitish, tinted Avith 
greyish broAAui; the belly still darker. Eyelids and eye- 
lashes yelloAA'ish red. 
Degland remarks that specimens he received from 
M. A. Malherbe, killed in the neighbourhood of Genes, 
were smaller than those received from the south of 
France. The colours Avere more pure, approaching to 
blue on the back, sides, and upon the silvery Avhite in 
front of the neck and middle of the chest and belly. 
My figures of this bird and its egg are from specimens 
sent me by M. E. Verreaux. 
It is also figured by Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 21 ; 
Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 24; Gould, in B. of E., 
pi. 129, as Sardinian M^arbler. 
