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177— BOTANY-BAY WARBLER. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill black; plumage 

 above pale ash grey ; beneath wholly cinereous white ; quills brown, 

 with pale edges ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers nearly two 

 inches in length, the outmost one inch and a half; the six middle 

 ones are even in length, and black ; the next black, with the tip for 

 a quarter of an inch white; the next white for half the length from 

 the tip, and wholly so on the outer web ; the outmost entirely white ; 

 the three exterior are also of different degrees of length, though the 

 six middle ones are equal ; legs pretty long, black. 



Said to inhabit Botany-bay. Is very like the Grey-throated 

 Warbler. 



178— RUFOUS-VENTED WARBLER. 



Sylvia rufiventris, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. liv. 



Rufous-vented Warbler, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 248. Shaw's Zool. x. 696. 



SIZE of the Redbreast. General colour above, wings, and 

 tail, ash ; chin and throat, to the breast, bluish white; from the base 

 of the bill a deep dusky blue streak, passing on each side of the 

 neck, bounding the throat at the bottom part, and finishing in a 

 deep crescent on the breast ; from this last to the vent deep rufous ; 

 bill and legs dusky ; tail even at the end, the wings reaching a very 

 little way beyond the base of it. 



179— CITRINE WARBLER. 



Sylvia citrina, Ind. Orn. ii. 5"29. 



Motacilla citrina, Gin. Lin. i. 979. 



Citrine Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 464. Shaw's Zuol.x. 601. 



SIZE of a Wren ; length three inches and a half, Bill three 

 quarters of an inch, straight, and black; irides very pale blue ; the 



