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SYLVIA SUBALPINA. 



(SUBALPINE WARBLER.) 



Sylvia subalpina, Bonelli, in Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 214 (1820). 



Sylvia •passerina, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 213 (1820, nee Gmel.). 



Sylvia leucopogon, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. iii. p. 91 (1822, ex MS. Heckel). 



Curruca subalpina, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553. 



Curruca passerina, Boie, ut supra, (nee Gmel.). 



Curruca leupogon, Boie, ut supra. 



Alscecus, Kaup (S. leucopogon, Meyer), Natiirl. Syst. p. 108 (1829). 



Erythroleuca, Kaup (S. passerina, Temm.), op. cit. p. 153 (1829). 



Curruca leucopogon (Meyer), Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 124 (1837). 



Sterparola subalpina (Bonelli), Bp. Cat. Ucc. Eur. p. 37 (1842). 



Curruca leucopogon (Meyer), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 229 (1855). 



Curruca albistriata, C. L. Brehm, ut supra. (1855). 



BabiUarde subalpine, French ; Sterpazzolino, Italian. 



Figurm notabiles. 



Temminck, PL Col. 6. fig. 2, and 251. figs. 2, 3; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pis. 46, 47; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 124. 



6 ad. supra saturate schistaceo-cinereus, dorso, scapularibus et uropygio pallidioribus : remigibus et tectricibus 

 alarum nigro-fuscis, his et secundariis extus pallidiore marginatis : cauda nigro-fusca vix cinereo tincta, 

 rectricibus centralibus cinereo marginatis, rectrice extima utrinque alba, in pogonio interno versus 

 apicem fusco notata, : mento, gutture et pectore laete hepatico-castaneis, stria utrinque mystacali alba : 

 corpore subtiis imo albido vix rufescente induto, hypochondriis cinereis : rostro corneo, ad basin man- 

 dibulse flavicante : iride fusca, marginibus palpebrarum rubris : pedibus pallide brunneis. 



? supra sordidior et brunnescentior, corpore subtiis albido vix cervino tincto, gutture et pectore vix rufescente 

 tinctis, hypochondriis brunnescenti-cervinis. 



Adult Male (Olympus, 9th March). Crown, sides of the head and neck dark plumbeous ashy; hack, 

 scapulars, and rump also dark cinereous, hut lighter than the head ; quills and wing-coverts blackish 

 brown, with lighter margins to the secondaries and wing-coverts; tail blackish brown, with an ashy 

 tinge, and ashy margins to the central rectrices, outer rectrix white, slightly marked with brown 

 towards the tip of the inner web, second feather dark brown, marked with white on the tip ; throat 

 and upper breast rich ferruginous chestnut; a white line passes from the base of the bill down each 

 side of the neck bordering the red ; rest of the underparts white, marked with reddish ; flanks pale 

 ashy grey; hill dark horn, light yellowish at the base of the lower mandible; iris brown, edge of 

 eyelid reddish ; legs fleshy brown. Total length about 5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-45, tail 2-15, 

 tarsus 0'75. 



