72 WARBLER. 



60.— FLOWERY WARBLER. 



Le Becque-fleur, Levail. Afr.m. 142. pi. 134. 1.2. 

 Sylvia minuta, Minute Warbler, Shaw's "Lool. xxii. pi. 997. 



THIS is the smallest Species M. Levaillant ever met with at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, being even inferior in size to the Golden-crested 

 Wren. The bill is excessively slender, and sharp as a needle ; the 

 colour of it, as well as the eyes and legs, brown ; plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body greenish grey ; beneath pale yellow ; throat 

 inclined to white ; between the bill and eyes the feathers are longish, 

 dusky, and white, and are turned forwards; wings and tail brown. 



The female is like the male, but the colours more faint, and 

 wants the elongated feathers on the forehead. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, about Heere Logements, and 

 from thence to the River of Elephants, and beyond ; found in troops 

 of eight or ten ; these are very active, and fly from flower to flower, 

 in search of insects ; its cry is like Zi, zi, many times repeated ; nest 

 and eggs unknown. 



A bird, apparently of this kind, in Gen. Hardwicke's collection, 

 scarcely three inches and a half long. Bill black ; upper parts of 

 the plumage pale greenish grey; beneath dusky, greenish white; 

 over the eye a white trace ; beneath it a second ; legs brown ; the tail 

 short, rather hollowed out in the middle; the feathers of that and 

 the quills with pale greenish white edges. 



Found at Cavvnpore, in October. 



61— LEUCOMELE WARBLER. 



Motacilla leucomela, 2V. C. Petr. xiv. 584. t. 22. 3. Falck, It. iii. t. 30. Gm. Lin. i. 



974. Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 15S. Id. Ed. ii. 243. 

 Motacilla pleschanka, N. C. Petr. xiv. 503. t. 14. f. 2. 



