WARBLER. 121 



133.— RUSTY-SHOULDERED WARBLER. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill and legs brown ; plumage in general 

 above rufous brown ; from the middle of the crown to beyond the 

 nape ferruginous ; the feathers falling on the shoulders, and the lesser 

 wing coverts the same, but paler ; under wing coverts dusky white ; 

 quills and tail as the back ; all beneath dusky ash-colour, but very 

 pale, marked on the chin with blackish streaks, and on the throat 

 with transverse dusky ones ; the tail very cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers three inches long, the outmost, but one, an inch and a half, 

 and the exterior only three quarters of an inch ; all of them swelling 

 towards the end, but finishing in a sharp point, the inner webs 

 being very broad; the whole appear slight in their texture, and bend 

 a trifle outwards. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. — Native place uncertain. 

 Appears to have some relation to the Long-tailed Species. 



134— GAUZE-TAILED WARBLER. 



La Queue gazee, Levari. Afr. iii. 125. pi. 130. 2. 



SIZE of a Wren, but on account of the length of tail, the total 

 measure is seven inches. Bill dusky ; legs brown ; general colour 

 of the plumage rufous brown ; fore part of the neck blue grey, with 

 a singular gloss like a pearl, or oriental agate ; hind part of the 

 neck black brown, waved with paler brown ; the tail longer than the 

 rest of the bird, and cuneiform, the shafts nearly black, or deep 

 brown, but the webs are rufous brown ; and so very loose in texture 

 and transparent, that if laid over a printed book, the page may be 

 read, notwithstanding. 



This inhabits Java, and is in the cabinet of M. Temminck, of 

 Amsterdam. 



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