110 WARBLER. 



Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. The name given to this was 

 Mooti Choon, or Gooda ; but I observe others both with the names 

 Mooti Choon, and Babooneh.* 



116 —SPECTACLE WARBLER. 



Sylvia conspicillata, Bee fin a lunettes, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 210. 



THIS is four inches and four lines long. Bill yellow at the 

 base and black at the point ; irides brown ; crown and cheeks cine- 

 reous ; between the bill and eye black, surrounding the space round 

 the eye, which is white ; back rufous ; wings dusky, coverts edged 

 with rufous; throat clear white; the rest of the under parts reddish 

 white, inclining to rufous on the sides ; tail rounded at the end, 

 dusky, the outer feather wholly white, the next has the end white, 

 the third white just at the tip; legs pale yellow. The female not 

 much unlike the male. 



Inhabits Sardinia, where it is not uncommon among the bushes, 

 or woods : not observed in the north of Italy, or in France; was first 

 noticed by M. de la Marmora, at the end of August, 1819. It has 

 much resemblance at first sight to the White Throat, but we are 

 assured by M. Temminck that it is a distinct species ; sufficiently 

 distinguished, not only by its having the appearance of wearing 

 spectacles, but being smaller in size. 



* A nest of a bird called Babooneh, probably this, is among the drawings of General 

 Hardwicke. It is about two inches and a half in diameter, open at the top, and fastened 

 to the bifurcation of a pendent branch of a tree, bearing leaves seven inches long, and 

 shaped like those of a citron : the nest composed of pale downy materials, hemispherical, 

 lined with hair; eggs four, pale bluish white. It may be observed, that the nest is fastened 

 to the bifurcation by numerous threads, and hangs downwards. 



