INSECTIVOR^. 
Family SYLVIADjE. 
Genus Sylvia. ( Latham.) 
MOUSTACHED WARBLER. 
Sylvia melanopogen. 
Sylvia melanopogen, 
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Calamodyta melanopogen, 
Salicaria melanopogen, 
(C ft 
Cettia melanopogen, 
ft ft 
Bee-Jin a Moustaches Noires, 
Schwarzhartiger Bohrsdnger, 
Torapaglie Castagnolo, 
Temminck; Man., 2nd. Ed., 
p. 121, 1835. 
ScHiNZ; Europ. Faun., 1840, 
Muhle; Monograph, 1856. 
Bonaparte, 1838. 
Keyserling and Blasitjs, 
1840. 
ScHLEGEL; Bevue, 1844. 
Z, Gerbe; Diet., 1848. 
Degland, 1849. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Of Savi. 
Specific Characters. — Beak very slender, and drawn inwards; 
eyebrows broad and white; the vertex, lore, and a spot behind 
the eyes black; twelve quills in the tail; tarsi blackish. Length 
four inches and a half; carpus to tip two inches and one fifth ; tail 
one inch and a half; tarsus nine tenths of an inch; beak, from 
gape, half an inch. 
