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A. — In this Variety the whole top of the head and back are grey, 

 palest on the crown ; wings brown, edges of the feathers pale; front, 

 sides of the head, and breast deep black; from breast to vent, rump, 

 and tail rufous red, but the two middle feathers of the last brown. 



The female as in the above description of that sex. 



B. — This has the whole head, neck, breast, and beginning of 

 the back black ; gape orange ; wings deep brown ; the under parts, 

 rump, and base of the tail pale rufous red, the end half brown, but 

 the outer feathers wholly rufous red. 



The female brown, with a rufous tinge on the cheeks ; the breast 

 cinereous; from thence white; rump and vent very pale rufous; tail 

 as in the male. 



Met with at Cawnpore, in February; called Phirrera. 



C. — Bill and legs dusky; general colour of the plumage black; 

 crown of the head yellow brown ; a streak of the same beneath the 

 eye ; wings brown ; edges of the feathers pale ; from breast to vent 

 rufous orange ; rump and tail the same ; the wings reach two-thirds 

 on the latter. 



The female generally brown ; the chin and vent pale ash brown ; 

 under the eye a bluish dusky mark ; beneath as in the male ; the two 

 middle tail feathers reddish brown. 



Found at Chittigong, by the name of Surdy. — Sir J. Anstruther. 

 M. Temminck joins this with his Sylvia Tithys; but the Black Red- 

 tail, here meant, is not an European Species. 



19.— CHESTNUT-BELLIED WARBLER. 



Sylvia erythrogastra, Ind. Orn. ii. 513. 



Motacilla erythrogastra, Gm. Lin. i. 975. N. C. Petr. xix. 469. t. 16. 17. 



Chestnut-bellied Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 424. Shaic's Zool. x. 672. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill black ; eyes brown ; crown and 

 nape dirty, sooty white ; round the bill, throat, cheeks, neck, and 



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