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LUSCINIOLA MELANOPOGON. 



(MOUSTACHED SEDGE-WARBLER.) 



Sylvia melanopogon, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 121 (1835). 



Calamodyta melanopogon (Temm.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 12 (1838). 



Salicaria melanopogon (Temm.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 55 (1840). 



Lusciniola melanopogon (Temm.), List of Gen. of B. p. 28 (1841). 



Cettia melanopogon (Temm.), Gerbe, Diet. univ. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 240 (1848). 



Caricicola melanopogon (Temm.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 236 (1855). 



Caricicola bonelli, C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1855). 



Amnicola melanopogon (Temm.), Gerbe in Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 527 (1867). 



Sylvia bonellii, Naum., fide G. E. Gray, Hand-1. of B. p. 210 (1869). 



Fauvette a moustaches noires, French ; Forapaglie castagnolo, Italian. 



Figures notabiles. 



Temminck, PI. Col. 245. fig. 2 ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, Suppl. pi. 1 ; Gould, B. of 

 Eur. pi. Ill; Eoux, Orn. Prov. pi. 233; Shelley, B. of Egypt, pi. 3. 



c? ad. AcrocephaJo schwnobceno similis sed pileo fere omnino nigro-fusco : dorso saturatiore, stria superciliari 

 alba, stria per oculum ducta conspicue saturatiore, et gula, et gutture pure albis : alis et cauda sicut in 

 A. schcenobtsno picturatis sed remige extimo conspicue majore : rostro nigro-fusco, ad basin mandibular 

 brunneo : pedibus brunneis : iride fusca. 



2 ad. mari similis, sed coloribus paullo sordidioribus. 



Juv. adulto similis, sed dorsi plumis rufescente marginatis et coloribus omnino rufescentioribus. 



Adult Male (Egypt, 31st Marcb). Differs from A. schmnobmnus in having the crown black, with only faint 

 traces of brown markings, the back is a trifle more uniform in colour ; the eyebrow is broader, and 

 nearly pure white, and the mark through the eye covering the auriculars is very dark ; underparts as 

 in A. schcenobanus, but the chin and throat are rather whiter ; wings and tail as in A. schoenobcenus, 

 but the first primary, instead of being very small as in that species, is tolerably long and well developed ; 

 bill blackish, the base of the lower mandible brown ; legs horn-brown ; soles yellowish ; iris brown. 

 Total length about 5'25 inches, culmen - 5.2, wing 2 - 2, tail 2'1, tarsus 072, first quill 03 longer than 

 the coverts, and 085 shorter than the second ; second 02 shorter than the third, which is nearly equal 

 in length with the fourth and fifth. 



Young. Resembles the adult ; but the feathers on the back have broad rufous edges, and the plumage is in 

 general more rufous in tinge. 



The present species is only met with in Southern Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa, whence 



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