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WARBLER. 



This is found chiefly in barren and desert places, in Sardinia ; is 

 not uncommon, and never found in company with other species ; is 

 also most probably to be met with in Naples and Sicily ; feeds on 

 insects ; nest and eggs unknown. — The above account communicated 

 by M. Marmora, in the Annales de l'Academie du Turin, in 1719. 



31.— RUFOUS WARBLER. 



Sylvia rufa, Ind. Orn. ii. 516. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 125. Id. Ed. ii. p. 226. 



Curruea rufa, Bris. iii. 387. Id. 8vo. i. 418. Gm. Lin. i. 955. 



Muscipeta minima, Frisch, t. 24. 



La petite Fauvette rousse, Buf. v. 146. PL enl. 581. 1 ? 



Weiden Sanger, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. S. 649. 



Rufous Warbler, Gen. Syn.'w. 431. Shaw's Zool. x. 668. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill grey brown ; the 

 plumage rufous grey above, pale rufous beneath ; under the eye a 

 longitudinal streak of the same ; quills rufous grey, with pale rufous 

 edges; tail the same; legs brown. 



Said to frequent the gardens in France and Germany, making the 

 nest in a low bush or plant, lined with hair ; laying five greenish 

 white eggs, spotted with a dark colour. The bird referred to in the 

 PI. enlum. can scarcely be the same, as it measures five inches and 

 three quarters at least ; besides, the outer tail feather seems to be 

 white, the next tipped with white, and the legs yellow : probably 

 the mistake may have happened from a wrong quotation.* 



32.— NATTERER'S WARBLER. 



Sylvia Nattereri, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 227. 



LENGTH four inches two lines. Bill brown, the lower man- 

 dible white ; crown and nape cinereous brown ; back and lesser 



* Mr. Temminck supposes that in the PL enl. above quoted, to be a young bird of the 

 White Throat Species. 



