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A. — Ruticilla pectore maculato, Bm, iii. 407. Id. 8vo. i. 423. 

 Sylvia thorace argentato, Klein, 78. 10. 

 Rothschwanzlein, Frisch, t. 20. f. 26. Gen. Syn. iv. 423. 



This is probably a female, having the breast spotted with red. 



B. — Ruticilla cinerea, Bris. iii. 40G. A. Id. 8vo. i. 423. 



Ruticilla tertia Aldrovandi, Rail, 78. A. 5. Var. Will. 160. Id. Engl. 218. 



Wald Rothschwanz, Gunth. Nest. t. 19. upper fig. 



This appears to be a Variety of the male, has only a long line of 

 white on the forehead ; the back more cinereous ; and the bottom of 

 the belly not white. 



15— TITHYS WARBLER. 



Sylvia Tithys, Ind. Om. ii. 512. Scop. i. No. 233. Tern. Man. Ed.Yi. 219. 

 Motacilla Tithys, Lin. i. 335. 34. (3. Gm. Lin. i. 987. j3. Id. reise,iv. 151. 

 — — — corpore nigro, cauda rufa, Kram. 376. 12 ? 

 Garten Rothschwanz, Gunth. Nest. t. 30. lower fig. 

 Tithys Warbler, Shaw's Zool. x. 671. 

 Redstart Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 423. Var. C. 



THE male of this inclines to ash-colour; the throat and breast 

 black; belly, between the thighs, whitish; elsewhere varied with 

 black and white. The female wholly brown ; in both sexes the two 

 middle tail feathers are brown ; the others brown at the tips ; the rest 

 of the tail and vent red. 



This is called, in Italy, Moretto; by the Germans, Hausroth 

 Schweiffl; found about the Caspian Sea, as Gmelin met with it there 

 in May : Scopoli thinks that it is not a Variety of the Redstart, but 

 a different bird. 



