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rump ferruginous; breast and belly whitish ; quills brown ; tail even, 

 ferruginous, the ends of the feathers brown. 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



A. — A Variety among the drawings of Sir John Anstruther, 

 answered to the above, except in having a second stripe of white in 

 the direction of the jaw, growing wider behind, bounded above and 

 beneath with black ; between the bill and eye black ; tail one inch 

 and three quarters long, and brown ; rump brown ; legs one inch and 

 a quarter long, rather stout, and yellow. 



Inhabits India : with this another smaller, having the upper parts 

 pale brown ; sides of the head and beneath white ; chin and throat 

 pale rufous ; bill and legs dusky. This appears as a young bird. 



23.— RUSSIAN WARBLER. 



Sylvia Certhiola, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 186. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill black ; plumage above olive brown, 

 with oblong dusky brown spots; chin, fore part of the neck, and 

 middle of the belly white; beneath the chin a zone of oval brown 

 specks; sides, belly, and under tail coverts, light rufous, the last 

 with white ends ; tail long, greatly cuneiform, the feathers on the 

 upper part tipped with ash-colour ; beneath dusky, at the end for 

 some way whitish ash. The female paler in colour ; hind claw very 

 long, and crooked. 



Inhabits the South of Russia ; said to be first described by Dr. 

 Pallas, in his Faun. Russica. 



24— GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



Sylvia Locustella, Ind. Om. ii. 515. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 129. Id. Ed. ii. 184. 

 Locustella, Rail, 70. A. 7. Id. Letters, p. 108. Will. 157. 

 Ficedula pectore fusco, Gerin, iv. t. 393. 2. 



