12 WARBLER. 



5— BARRED WARBLER. 



Sylvia nisoria, Bee-fin rave, Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 10S. Id.Ed.'ri. p, 200. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill brown ; irides yellow ; 

 head, cheeks, nape, and back deep cinereous ; scapulars and rump 

 tipped with brown and white stripes; wings pale cinereous; tail the 

 same, the outer feather tipped with a white spot, which also occupies 

 part of the inner web; on the next the same, but the spot smaller; 

 the third and fourth only edged, and tipped with white; throat, 

 neck, breast, and sides white, striped across with cinereous grey 

 bands; middle of the belly white ; the under tail coverts cinereous, 

 deeply edged with white. In the female the upper parts are more 

 plain, and the tail very little marked with white. The young bird 

 is striped across both above and beneath, and has a brown iris. 



Inhabits the shrubs in Sweden, the North of Germany, Hungary, 

 &c. but is a rare species ; lays four or five eggs, cinereous white, and 

 marked with spots of reddish ash-colour. 



6— LESSER PETTICHAPS. 



Sylvia Hippolais, Ind. Orn. i. 507. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 122. Id. Ed. ii. p. 222. 



Motacilla Hippolais, Lin. i. 330. Faun. suec. No. 248. Gm. Lin. i. 954. 



Ficedula septima Aldrov. Pettichaps, Raii, 79. A. 7. Will. 158. Id. E?igl. 216. 



Zinnan. Uov. 44. t. 6. f. 29 ? 

 Motacilla Fitis, Naturf. xxvii. s. 50. 5. 

 Lesser Pettichaps, Gen. Syn. iv. 413. 3.* Id. Sup. ii. 236. Br. Zoo/. I. No. 249. 



for description. Id. Ed. 1812. i. p. 508. Arct. Zool. ii. 418. G. Id. Sup. p. 64. 



Nat. Miscel. t. 189. Shaw's Zool. x. 746. Bewick, i. p. 209 ? Lewin, iii. pi. 



101. Walcot, ii. pi. 251. Pult. Dors. p. 9. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH five inches, breadth eight ; weight two drachms. Bill 

 short, dusky, the under mandible bluish ; inside of the mouth flesh- 

 colour; above and beneath the eye, a yellowish line ; head, neck, 

 and upper parts, cinereous; quills and tail mouse-colour; belly 



