50 WARBLER. 



and in some lights on the back likewise ; quills and tail brown ; 

 legs dusky. — Inhabits Africa. — Mr. Bullock. It is at first sight 

 very like the Lesser Pettichaps, but is a smaller bird. 



43— GREEN-BACKED WARBLER. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill dusky; plumage above 

 dusky green ; beneath pale yellow buff-colour ; the base of the 

 greater quills white, forming a spot on the wing ; from the nostrils, 

 over the eye, a pale trace ; quills and tail dark ash ; on the two 

 outer feathers of the last, a dusky white spot on the inner web, near 

 the end ; legs brown, pretty long. 



Inhabits Africa. — Mr. Bullock. 



44. -WHIN-CHAT WARBLER. 



Sylvia Rubetra, Ind. Orn. ii. 525. Scop. i. 237. 



Motacilla Rubetra, Lin. i. 332. Faun. suec. No. 255. Frisch, t. 22. Borowsk. iii. 



192. Gm. Lin. i. 967. Brun. No. 277. Muller, No. 275. Kramer, 375. 5. 



Tern. Man. d'Om. p. 159. Id. Ed.\\. 245. (Traquet Tarier). 

 Muscicapa altera mas, Gerin. iv. t. 382. 2. 



Rubetra major, sive Rubicola, Bris. iii. 432. t. 24. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 430. 

 Sylvia Petrarum, Steinfletsche, Klein, 78. 11. Id. Ov. 25. t. 10. f. 9. 

 Das Braunkehlchen, Naturf. xvii. 103. 

 Grand Traquet, ou Tarier, Buf. v. 224. PI. enl. 678. 2. 

 Walde Rothschwantz, Gunth. Nest. t. 95. 

 Oenanthe secunda, Raii, 76. A. 3. Will. 234. 

 Whin-Chat, Gen. Syn. iv. 454. Br. Zool, i. No. 158. Id.fol. 103. t. S. 2. f. 3. 4. 



Id. Ed. 1812. i. 525. Arct. Zool. ii. 421. R. Will. Engl. 234. Collins, Birds, 



pi. 8. f. 3. 4. Shaw's Zool. x. 706. Hayes, Birds, pi. 60. Lewin, iii. pi. 109. 



Walcot, ii. pi. 140. Pult. Dors. p. 9. Orn. Diet. Graves, Br. Orn. v. iii. Id. 



Eggs, Pt. I. 



LENGTH five inches, weight four drachms and a half. Bill 

 black ; irides hazel ; head, neck, back, and rump black, the feathers 

 edged with rufous ; from the bill, over the eye, a white streak, 



