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MELIZOPHILUS SAEDUS. 



(MARMORA'S WARBLER.) 



Sylvia sarda, Mann. Mem. Ace. Scienz. Torino, Aug. 1819, fide Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 205 



(1820). 

 Curruca sarda (Marm.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553. 

 Pyrophthalma sarda (Marm.), Bp. Cat. Ucc. Eur. p. 37 (1842). 

 Melizopkilus sarda (Marm.), Gerbe, Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 113 (1848). 

 Dumeticola sarda (Marm.), A. von Homeyer, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 88. 

 Melizophilus sardus (Marm.), Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 492 (1867). 



Pitchou sarde, French ; Magnanina sarda, Italian. 



Figures notabiles. 

 Temminck, PI. Col. 24. fig. 2 ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 40 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 127. 



d ad. supra saturate schistaceo-cinereus : pileo, loi'is et regione oculari nigricantibus : alis et Cauda uigro- 

 fuscis, plumis extus vix cinereo marginatis, rectrice extima. utrinque iu pogonio externo albo raargi- 

 natis : gula, gutture, pectore et hypoehondriis sordide schistaceo-griseis, plumis nonnullis vix albido 

 marginatis : abdomine albido lateraliter vix brunneo lavato : subcaudalibus albidis, centraliter griseo- 

 schistaceo notatis : rostro saturate corneo, ad basin mandibulse flavido : iride fusca, marginibus palpe- 

 brarum rubris : pedibus flavo-fuscis. 



2 ad. mari simiHs sed brunnescentior et sordidior : gula, et gutture ut in mare picturatis, sed plumis haud albido 

 marginatis : corpore reliquo subtiis brunnescenti-griseo schistaceo tincto, vitta in abdomine centrali 

 alba. 



Adult Male (Sardinia, April). Upper parts dark slate-grey, becoming dull black on the crown and sides 

 of the head, round the eye, and the loral region ; wings and tail blackish brown with light slate-grey 

 narrow edgings to the feathers, the outer rectrix on each side edged externally with almost pure white ; 

 throat, upper breast, and flanks dull slate-grey, some of the feathers, especially on the chin, with 

 whitish margins ; abdomen dull white, on the sides slightly washed with brown ; under tail-coverts 

 whitish with dull slaty grey centres ; bill dark horn, becoming yellow at the base of the lower man- 

 dible ; iris brown, edge of the eyelid red ; legs yellowish brown. Total length about 5 inches, 

 culmen 0"4, wing 212, tail 2 - 45, tarsus 0"8. 



Adult Female (Sardinia, April). Resembles the male, but has the upper parts browner and duller, and the 

 underparts duller and more uniform, there being no white edgings to the feathers, and the entire under- 

 parts below the throat dull brownish grey with a slaty tinge, a spot in the centre of the abdomen alone 

 beiiig white. 



Male in winter (Sardinia, February). Differs merely in having the upper parts less pure in colour, and the 

 abdomen and lower flanks bufly brown in tinge, the centre of the abdomen, however, being almost 

 white. 



