WARBLER. 147 



Inhabits Terra del Fuego, and varies both in size and length of 

 bill ; frequents the sea beach, and supposed to feed on shell fish, or 

 sea worms. 



A. — Length eight inches and a half. Bill black, with no hairs 

 at the base ; plumage brown, beneath olive-brown, but much paler 

 than above ; chin mottled grey and brown ; tail three inches long; 

 legs dusky; hind claw large, and very little crooked. 



Inhabits Falkland Island. I met with a specimen of this at 

 Mr. Humphries, in Long Acre, London. 



191 —THORN-TAILED WARBLER— Pl. cvii. 



Sylvia Spinicauda, Ind. Orn. ii. 528. 



Motacilla Spinicauda, Gm. Lin. i. 978. 



La Queue en Aiguille, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 227. 



Grimpereau, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxiii. 



Thorn-tailed Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 463. pl. 52. Shaiv's Zool. x. 694. pl. 54. 



SIZE of a Sparrow ; length six inches. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch, brown, straight, but a little curved at the tip, base of the 

 under mandible white ; at the comer of the mouth a few black hairs ; 

 irides brown ; head and upper part of the body dusky reddish brown, 

 mottled with yellow on the crown; between the bill and eye yellow, 

 passing in a streak over the eye to the hindhead, where it is rufous, 

 mixed with brown ; shoulders white ; under parts of the body, from 

 chin to vent, white ; greater wing coverts and quills brown, with pale 

 margins; tail cuneiform, and the feathers almost bare of webs for 

 one-third of the length, ending in points ; the four middle ones are 

 ferruginous, the others reddish brown, with white ends ; legs one 

 inch long and brown. 



Inhabits Terra del Fuego ; is also, now and then, met with about 

 Buenos Ayres and Paraguay, but we believe far from common. 



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