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tail fine deep blue, deeper on the chin and throat; breast rufous, as 

 in the Redbreast ; from thence to the vent white ; quills dusky, with 

 bluish edges; bastard wing dusky; legs yellow. 



Inhabits India ; described from the Collection of Lady Clive. I 

 observe another Blue-headed Warbler in the same, but only the 

 head and throat are blue ; the rest, for the most part, brown. 



154— CHINA WARBLER. 



Sylvia Sinensis, Tnd. Orn. ii. 533. Gm. Lin.i. 960. Motacilla. 

 China Warbler, Gen. Si/n. iv. 474. Shaw's Zool. x. 689. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill pale dusky red ; plumage in general 

 green ; from the eye to the nape a pale streak ; on the ear a pale 

 spot ; under parts of the body flesh-colour ; tail pointed ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits China. 



155.- BOURBON WARBLER. 



Sylvia Borbonica, Tnd. Orn. ii. 533. 



Ficedula Borbonica, Bris. iii. 510. t. 28. f. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 449. 



Figuier de l'lsle de Bourbon, PL enl. 705. 2. 



Le petit Simon, Biif. v. 280. 



Bee-fin, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Ixviii. 



Bourbon Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 475. Shaw's Zool. x. 600. 



SIZE of the Yellow Wren. Bill grey brown ; plumage above 

 the same, beneath dirty yellowish grey ; quills and tail brown, the 

 feathers edged with grey brown ; legs grey brown. 



Inhabits the Island of Madagascar, and Bourbon ; at the latter 

 called by the inhabitants, Petit Simon ; makes the nest in September, 

 composed of dried plants, lined with hair, and generally placed on 

 trees, which stand singly, as in orchards; the eggs three in number, 

 and blue. These birds always keep together in flocks, and feed on 

 insects, and tender fruits ; they set up a particular cry, when seeing 



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