96 WARBLER. 



In the collection of Mr. Salt are two specimens, found in 

 Abyssinia. In one the plumage is more intensely black, and the 

 head feathers more elongated, so as to enable the bird to raise them 

 as a crest. This bird has in many things the air and appearance of 

 a Wagtail; but as the manners have not been handed down, nothing 

 more can be said about it. 



93.— COMMANDER WARBLER. 



Trapuet Cammandeur, Levail. Afr. iv. 1 15. pi. 2S9. 



GENERAL colour of the plumage deep brown black, but the 

 bend of the wing and the coverts are rose-white : female the same, 

 but the white spot less defined. Young birds have a rufous brown 

 plumage, and the shoulders pure white, and in this state are mis- 

 taken for the Luzonian Warbler, but the latter has a stronger bill. 



Inhabits the west coast of Africa, from 28 deg. of lat. S. and 

 departs after it has reared its young. Said to make the nest in sub- 

 terraneous caverns, and to lay from five to eight eggs, and they are 

 often seen in families of that number ; is found also at Malimba. 



94.— MADAGASCAR WARBLER, 



Sylvia Madagascariensis, Ind.Orn. ii. 507. Gm.Lin.'i. 952. 

 Luscinia Madagascariensis, Bris. iii. 401. t. 22. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 422. 

 Le Foudi-jala, Buf. v. 110. 

 Madagascar Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 412. Shaw's Zool. x. 579. 



SIZE of our Nightingale ; the length near six inches and a half. 

 Bill deep brown ; head rufous ; behind each eye a brown spot ; the 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body olive brown ; throat white ; 

 breast pale rufous; belly rufous brown, tinged with olive; tail brown 

 above, and inclining to olive beneath ; legs deep brown. 



Inhabits Madagascar, where it is called Foudi-jala. 



