132 WARBLER. 



any thing running on the ground, and hence become a good criterion 

 for the sportsman, in respect to game, which might otherwise escape 

 his observation. 



156— MAURICE WARBLER. 



Sylvia Mauritiana, Ind. Orn. ii. 534. Gm. Lin. i. 981. Motacilla. 



Le Figuier bleu, Buf. v. 282. PI. enl. 705. 1. 



Maurice Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 476. Shaw's Zool. x. 665. 



LENGTH three inches and three quarters. Bill blackish ; 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body blue grey, on the under 

 white; quills and tail black, edged with white ; legs bluish. 



Inhabits the Island of Mauritius; probably a Variety of the 

 last, or sexual difference. 



A. — Length of the other. Bill yellow, with a few hairs at the 

 base; head, neck, and back, fine pale blue grey; beneath from the 

 breast nearly white ; wings and tail brown, the edges of the feathers 

 paler; tail short ; the wings reaching to about the middle of it. 



Inhabits India, called there Toota foorka. It differs from that 

 in the PI enlum. as the bill is blackish, and the legs pale, which 

 in the other are exactly opposite ; in the PI. enlum. the rump seems 

 white, which is not so in Buffon's description ; nor are the quills and 

 tail black in our bird, though considerably darker than the rest. 



157. -LIVID WARBLER. 



Sylvia livida, Ind. Orn. ii. 534. Gm. Lin. i. 981. Motacilla. 

 Figuier bleu de Madagascar, PL enl. 705. 

 Contre-maitre brun verdatre, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 157 ? 

 Madagascar Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 476. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill and legs pale lead- 

 colour; plumage above deep blue grey, paler beneath, changing to 



