140 WARBLER. 



175— RUSTY-SIDE WARBLER. 



Sylvia lateralis, hid. Orn. Sup. lv. 



Rusty-side Warbler, Gen. St/n. Sup. ii. '250. Shaw's Zool. x. 659. 



LENGTH between four and five inches. Bill dusky, pale 

 beneath, nostrils covered with a kind of flap ; the greater part of 

 the head and wings, lower part of the back, and all except the two 

 middle tail feathers, green ; hind part of the neck, beginning of the 

 back, and two middle feathers of the tail, blue grey : tail even at the 

 end ; body beneath whitish, but ferruginous on the sides ; between 

 the bill and eye a narrow streak of black ; legs pale. 



Inhabits New South Wales. 



176— WREATHED WARBLER. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill slender, pointed, dusky; 

 head, and on each side to the jaw, glossy steel black; from the eye 

 round to the nape a white line, passing backwards, and surrounding 

 it as a wreath at the back part ; back and wings olive yellow ; quills 

 and tail dusky within ; beneath the body wholly white, also the 

 wing coverts ; tail two inches and a half long, somewhat cuneiform, 

 the outer feather being half an inch shorter than the two middle ones ; 

 legs brown. 



The female has the head mouse-colour, with the same kind of 

 wreath as in the other, but pale; under parts of the body dusky 

 white, and the upper parts of the plumage dusky green. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — Lord Stanley. 



