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75— SUBALPINE WARBLER. 



Sylvia subalpina, Becfin Subalpin, Tern. Man. Ed.'u. p. 214. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Crown, cheeks, nape, back, 

 and scapulars, cinereous; sides of the neck the same, with a vinous 

 tinge; throat, neck before, breast, sides, and belly vinous; middle of 

 the belly white ; wings cinereous black ; the quills and coverts edged 

 with rufous ash ; tail blackish, a little rounded, the outer feather 

 white on the outer web and tip, the rest tipped with white ; bill 

 brown above, and black beneath ; legs brown. 



This was a female, the male unknown ; it was found in the 

 neighbourhood of Turin, by M. le Professeur Bonelli, and is in the 

 Natural History Museum at that place ; a second specimen has not 

 been met with. 



76— GIBRALTAR WARBLER. 



Turdus arundinaceus, Ind. Orn. i. 334. 28. (3. 

 Sylvia galactotes, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 182. 

 Reed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 33. A. 



SIZE of a Nightingale; length six inches and a half. Bill pale 

 brown ; upper parts of the body pale testaceous brown, the under 

 dusky white; above the eye a streak of the same; quills dusky, 

 edged with cream-colour; rump and tail rufous; all but the two 

 middle feathers of the latter have a bar of black near the end, which 

 is farthest from the end on the outer feather ; from the bar to the tip 

 three of the outer feathers are white, the fourth white on the inner 

 web only ; in the next to that the white is wanting ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits Gibraltar, where it arrives the last week in April ; is a 

 familiar bird, void of fear, perching on the tops of shrubs, hedges, 



