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ORD. III. GENUS XL WARBLER. 



Bill, (lender and weak. 

 Nostrils, ftnall and funk. 

 Tongue, cloven. 



Toes, the outermoft joined at the under part of the laft joint to the 

 middle one. 



SPECIES I. FANTAIL WARBLER. 



PI. 98. 



The upper mandible of the bill of this fpecies is dufky, the under whitifh, 

 with a dufky tip : the general colour of the plumage on the upper part is of an 

 olive brown, interfperfed with dark dafhes : on the under part of a dull yellow- 

 ifh white, darkeft about the breaft : the tail is compofed of twelve pointed 

 feathers, the middlemoft of which are the longeft, the reft regularly decreafing 

 in length to the outer ones, which are the fhorteft. This fhape of the tail dif- 

 tinguifhes it from the grafshopper lark, with which it appears to have been 

 confounded : it has alfo fome difference in colour, and its hind claw is more 

 crooked. 



This fpecies is not uncommon in this kingdom. It is met with in thick 

 hedges, and not unfrequently among low bufhes and furze, and appears firft 

 about the middle of April. Its neft is not unlike that of the white throat, but 

 fmaller. 



