102 WARBLER. 



throat whitish, mixed with brown ; breast brown ; wing coverts and 

 outer edges of the quills the same ; within half brown, half rufous ; 

 the tail of these two colours, the two outer feathers white on the 

 outer webs ; under part of the body pale rufous. 

 Native place uncertain. 



103.— NAMAQUA WARBLER. 



Traquet Montagnard, Levail. Afr. iv. 105. pi. 184. 2. 



THE bill and legs in this bird are black ; eye reddish brown ; 

 plumage in general black, except the belly, shoulders, upper and 

 under tail coverts, and the outer margins of the side tail feathers from 

 the base, which are white. The female, when perfect, is like the male. 



Young birds are wholly of a fine grey, inclined to blue above ; 

 quills grey on the edges; the two middle tail feathers black, the 

 others partly white; rump and shoulders whitish grey; bill and legs 

 brown. After the second moult, the crown and nape are grey; 

 back 'and wing coverts, chin, throat, and breast, black ; shoulders 

 mixed with white; chin and throat, rump and tail, as in the adult, 

 but the white less pure. 



This inhabits the Namaqua Country, and lives on soft insects; 

 it approaches to the Rocar Thrush, as it frequents the points of 

 rocks, and deep cavernous parts, where it builds, and has the same 

 finesse as that bird. It is rarely seen in the plains, only descending 

 thereto, on account of extreme drought. 



104. -FLAME-COLOURED WARBLER. 



Sylvia flammea, Ind. Orn. Sup. Ivi. 



Motacilla flammea, Mus. Carls, iv. t. 98. 



Flame-coloured Warbler, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 251. Shaw's Zool. x. 692. 



THIS is an elegant bird, and of the size of a Wren. Bill, legs, 

 wings, and tail, black; head, neck, and back, of a beautiful pale 



