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SYLVIA SALICAEIA. 



(GARDEN- WARBLER.) 



Motacilla salicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 330 (1766). 



Motacilla hortensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 955 (1788). 



Sylvia hortensis (Gm.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 507 (1790). 



Curruca hortensis (Gm.), Koch, Baier. Zool. i. p. 155 (1816). 



1 Sylvia cedonia, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xi. p. 162 (1817). 



Fpilais, Kaup (Sylvia hortensis, Lath.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 145 (1829). 



Curruca brachyrhynchos, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 416 (1831). 



Curruca grisea, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 416 (1831). 



Adornis hortensis (Gm.), G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 29 (1841). 



Sylvia salicaria (L.), Newton in Yarr. Brit. B. ed. 4, i. p. 414 (1873). 



Fauvette des Jardins, French; Beccafico, Italian; Beccafik, Maltese; Garten-Grasmiicke, 

 grauer Nachtigall, German; Tuinflwiter, Dutch; Havesanger, Havesmutte, Danish; 

 Havesanger, Norwegian ; Hacksangare, Swedish ; Lehtokerttu, Finnish ; Travnik, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 579. fig. 2 ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 41 ; Kjeerb. Orn. Dan. 

 taf. 20 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 24. fig. 8 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 78. fig. 3 ; 

 Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 13. fig. 7; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 121 ; id. B. of G. Brit. ii. 

 pi. 62 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 69. 



6 ad. suprk cinereo-fuscus vix olivaceo tinctus : palpebris albis, remigibus et cauda, saturatioribus : subtiis 

 albus, gutture et pectore cervino lavatis : hypocliondriis pallide fusco-albidis, subalaribus pallide 

 cervinis : rostro corneo-fusco, mandibula ad basin rufescenti-albida, : iride fusca : pedibus plumbeis. 



Juv. adulto similis sed corpore suprh, magis olivaceo, corpore subtus flavido tincto. 



Adult Male (Christiania, Norway) . Upper parts generally uniform hair-brown, the wings and tail rather 

 darker than the rest of the upper parts, the latter uniform in colour without any light edgings to the 

 outer rectrices ; chin, throat, and entire underparts white, the throat and breast slightly washed with 

 buff, and the flanks washed with light brown; eyelids dull white; under wing-coverts delicate buff; 

 bill stout and short, dull lead-brown in colour, but dark brown along the ridge and towards the point, 

 the base of the lower mandible reddish white; iris dark brown; legs lead-coloured, the soles yellowish. 

 Total length about 5'5 inches, culmen 045, wing 3'12, tail 2"32, tarsus 0'8 ; the first primary longer 

 than the third, but the second is the longest. 



Female (Christiania) . Scarcely differs from the male in coloration, the underparts being a trifle whiter, and 

 the under wing-coverts a shade paler. 



Young. Upper parts darker with a greenish tinge, and the underparts tinged with yellowish ; but otherwise 

 the plumage is as in the adult bird. 



