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Found about Bologna, appears to be the Redbreast in incomplete 

 plumage. Mr. White says, the Redbreast sings by candle-light;* 

 and, like the Wren, whistles the year round. 



34— RUFOUS-THROATED WARBLER. 



LENGTH seven inches and a quarter. Bill black; the whole 

 of the upper parts of the plumage fine hoary lead or slate-colour; 

 beneath the eye a patch of feathers, with dusky white lines; at the 

 base of the under jaw another of dusky white, under eyelid white ; 

 chin and throat fine ferruginous, within the ferruginous, on each side, 

 a fine dusky line somewhat obscure ; breast fine dove-colour ; belly, 

 vent, and under tail coverts, ferruginous, the last deepest ; quills 

 dusky, with paler edges; tail three inches and a half long, rounded; 

 the two middle feathers dark, the exterior one white, but the outer 

 web from the middle to the end dusky ; the next the same, but the 

 end, as well as the inner web, white; the third black, with the end 

 only white ; the others black, but the two middle ones are of the 

 same colour as the back ; thighs slate-colour ; legs pale. 



Native place uncertain. — In Mr. Bullock's Museum. 



35— WHISKERED WARBLER. 



SIZE of the Redbreast. Bill pale red ; general colour of the 

 plumage brown ; throat pale orange ; on each under jaw a blackish 

 whisker; quills edged with pale orange, and a patch of deeper 

 orange, inclining to ferruginous at the base ; legs pale. 



Inhabits China. — Described from a specimen in the collection of 

 Mr. Lead beater. 



* Hist. Selb. p. 101. 

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