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INSECTIVOII.E. 
Family SYLVIA!)^. 
Genus Sylvia. ( Latham. ) 
GREY REDSTART. 
Sylcia cairii. 
RutlcillcB carii, 
“ titliijs, 
Eritliacus carii, 
Gekbe; Diet. 
Univ. D’ hist. 
Nat. tom. xi. p. 259. 
Beeum:. 
Degland. 
Sjiecific Characters . — The primary ami secondary quills fringed 
with ash-colour. General colour grey, with darker irregular mark- 
ings. Dimensions of a male specimen sent to me by M. Ed. 
Yerreaux, which is figured, length five inches and a half; from 
carpus to tip of wing three inches and three tenths; tarsi one inch; 
tail from vent two inches and a half. 
This bird is exactly similar in plumage to the au- 
tumnal moult of the male S. tithys, the Black liedstart 
of the British lists. It affords a good example of 
what is termed a permanent variety or race; because 
it has been found by careful examination that it never 
assumes the dark breeding plumage of the latter bird. 
I have thought it right therefore to give a figure and 
notice of it in this work ; more particularly as the Black 
