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SYLVIA MELANOCEPHALA. 



(SARDINIAN WARBLER.) 



Motacilla melanocephala, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 970 (1788). 



Sylvia melanocephala (Gm.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 509 (1790). 



Sylvia ruscicola, Vieill. N. Diet. xi. p. 186 (1817). 



Curruca melanocephala (Gm.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553. 



Curruca momus, Ehr. Symb. Phys. Av. i. fol. bb (1829). 



Pyrophthalma melanocephala (Gm.), Bp. Ucc. Eur. p. 37 (1842). 



Sylvia ochrogenion, Linderm. Isis, 1843, p. 343. 



Melizophilus melanocephalus (Gm.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 35. no. 230 (1850). 



Melizophilus nigricapillus, Cab. torn. cit. p. 35. no. 231 (1850). 



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



l.Curruca leucopogon, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 229 (1855, nee Meyer). 



Motacilla leucogastra, Ledru, fide Bolle, Journ. fur Orn. 1857, p. 282. 



Dumeticola melanocephala (Gm.), A. von Homeyer, Journ. fur Orn. 1862, p. 277. 



Sylvia bowmani, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 85. 



Sylvia melanocephala minor, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p 303 (1869-71). 



Babillarde melanocephale, French ; Tutinegra clos vallados, Portuguese ; Capellanet, Spanish ; 

 Capirote de ojos incarnados, in the Canaries ; Occhio-rosso, Italian ; Slavka chernogolovaya, 

 Eussian. 



Figures notabiles. 

 Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 39; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 21. fig. 3; Gould, B. of Eur. 

 p. 129; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 210. fig. 1. 



6 ad. pileo, capitis lateribus et nucha intense nigris : dorso, uropygio et supracaudalibus saturate caerules- 

 centi-schistaceis : remigibus nigricantibus, in pogonio externo vis schistaceo marginatis, tectricibus 

 alarum magis eoclem colore marginatis et apicatis : Cauda nigra, rectrice extima in pogonio externo et 

 ad apicem alba, duabus sequentibus inconspicue albo apicatis : gula, alba : pectore albo : canescenti- 

 schistaceo lavato : abdomine centrali albo : hypochondriis, subalaribus et subcaudalibus grisescenti- 

 schistaceis : rostro brunnescenti-corneo ad basin, mandibula sordide flavo : iride turn rufescente, turn 

 flava : marginibus palpebrarum sordide miniatis : pedibus brunneis. 



$ ad. corpore supra saturate grisescenti-brunneo, pileo et nucha vix schistaceo tinctis : alis et cauda ut in 

 mare coloratis, sed fuscescentioribus, rectricibus extimis brunnescenti-albido nee albo notatis : gula, et 

 abdomine centrali albis : pectore, hypochondriis, subcaudalibus et subalaribus brunnescenti-griseis : 

 rostro, pedibus et iride ut in mare coloratis. 



Adult Male (Guiken, Asia Minor, 24th March). Crown, sides of the head, including the auriculars, and 

 nape jet-black, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts very dark slaty blue-grey, quills dull blackish, 



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