130 WARBLER. 



151— PLUMBEOUS WARBLER. 



Sylvia plumbea, Ind. Orn. ii. 553. 



Plumbeous Warbler, Gen. Syn. Sup. 188. Shaw's Zool. x. 646. 



THIS is only three inches and three quarters in length. Bill 

 short, dusky brown ; plumage above deep lead-colour, nearly black ; 

 beneath pale ash ; quills and tail dusky; legs deep brown. 



Native place uncertain. 



152.— ASIATIC WARBLER. 



Sylvia Asiatica, Ind. Orn. ii. 554. 



Asiatic Warbler, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 247. Shaw's Zool. x. 602. 



SIZE of the Nightingale. Bill dusky, with a few hairs at the 

 base ; head and neck black ; lore and chin white ; body brown above, 

 yellowish beneath ; on the breast a few spots of white ; tail three 

 inches and three quarters long, cuneiform, brown ; the two middle 

 feathers plain, the others pale half way to the end. 



A. — In this the forehead, a streak over the eyes, and all the under 

 parts are white ; and such of the tail feathers as are pale in the 

 other, are in this quite white. 



These are found in India, about Guzurat, and most probably 

 differ from each other merely in sex. 



153— ETHERIAL WARBLER. 



LENGTH five inches; size of the Redbreast. Bill black, with 

 a hair or two at the base ; head, neck, upper parts of the body, and 



