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MELIZOPHILUS UNDATUS. 



(DARTFORD WARBLER.) 



Le Pitte-chou de Provence, D'Aubent. PL Enl. 655. fig. 1 (1770). 



Dartford Warbler, Perm. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, i. p. 329, pi. 56 (1776). 



Le Pitchou, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 158 (1778). 



Motacilla undata, Bodd. Tabl. des PI. Enl. p. 40 (1783, ex D'Aub.). 



Motacilla provincialis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 958 (1788, ex Buff.). 



Sylvia dartfordiensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 517 (1790). 



Melizophilus dartfordiensis (Lath.), Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 25 (1816). 



Sylvia ferruginea, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xi. p. 209 (1817). 



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



Thamnodus provincialis (Gm.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 110 (1829). 



Ficedula ulicicola, Blyth in Rennie's Field Nat. i. p. 310 (1833). 



Melizophilus provincialis (Gm.), Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. An. p. 112 (1835). 



Sylvia provincialis (Gm.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 57 (1840). 



Malurus provincialis (Gm.), Selby, Cat. Gen. Birds, p. 10 (1840). 



Sylvia undata (Bodd.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 174 (1849). 



Melizophilus undata (Bodd.), G. R. Gray, Hand-list of B. i. p. 212 (1869). 



Melizophilus undatus (Bodd.), Newton in Yarr. Brit. B. ed. 4, i. p. 398 (1873). 



Pitchou Provengal, French ; Colorin, Caganchina, Spanish ; Magnanina, Italian. 



Figura? notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 655. fig. 1 ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 45 ; Gould, B. of Eur. 

 pi. 129; id. B. of G. Brit. ii. pi. lx. ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 219. 



8 ad. supra cinerescenti-niger, pileo schistaceo lavato et dorso brunnescentiore : remigibus et tectricibus 

 alarum nigro fuscis, extus pallidiore marginatis, margine alse albo : cauda nigro-fusca, rectrice extirna 

 utrinque extus versus apicem albido marginata et apicata, reliquis pallide bruiineo apicatis : capitis 

 lateribus schistaceo-ciuereis, gula, gutture et pectore cum hypochondriis laete castaneis, abdomine 

 centrali albo, subalaribus et subcaudalibus schistaceo-cinereis : rostro nigro, ad basin mandibulse pallide 

 flavo : iride saturate flava : pedibus rufescenti-brunneis. 



2 ad. mari similis sed corpore supra sordidiore et brunnescentiore et corpore subtiis pallidiore et sordidiore. 



Adult Male (Sui'rey) . Upper parts blackish grey ; the crown with a slaty tinge, and the back somewhat 

 brownish ; quills and wing-coverts blackish brown, with fighter brown edges ; edge of the wing 

 between the carpus and the spurious wing-feathers white; tail blackish, the outer rectrix with the 

 terminal portion of the outer web broadly edged with dirty white, and tipped with the same colour, 

 the remaining feathers slightly tipped with brownish grey ; sides of the head greyish slate, paler than 



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