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rump; wing coverts and quills brown, with paler edges; tail a trifle 

 forked, the two middle feathers blackish brown ; the others obliquely 

 brown and fulvous. 



One, probably a female, was dark brown above; throat white ; 

 and the breast rufous. — From the Cape of Good Hope. 



A. — Bill stout, a trifle bent; plumage above clouded pale brown, 

 beneath paler ; the belly and vent white, marked on the breast with 

 small blackish spots; through the eye a narrow whitish trace; quills 

 dusky, with paler edges ; base of the prime quills reddish, the ends 

 dark ; the tail rufous from the base, with the end black, the colours 

 obliquely divided, the outer feathers being black only at the tips ; 

 the legs are pale. 



Inhabits India. — From the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther. 



112— SHRUBBY WARBLER. 



Saxicola fruticola, Lin. Trans, xiii. 157. 



LENGTH five inches. Plumage in general black; scapulars, 

 rump, and vent, white ; breast and belly mixed ferruginous grey ; 

 quills outwardly slightly edged with the same ; outer tail feathers a 

 trifle shorter than the rest. 



Inhabits Java, and there called Dechu. 



113— BUFF-RUMPED WARBLER. 



SIZE of the Redbreast. Bill pale ; head chestnut ; back and 

 wings pale olive-green ; throat, neck, and rump, buif-yellow ; belly 

 very pale green ; quills and tail olive-green ; legs dark. 



Inhabits Africa. — In Mr. Leadbeater's collection. 



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