190 WARBLER. 



a cinereous stripe ; wing coverts brown, bordered with yellow ; 

 greater quills brown, with whitish borders ; secondaries the same, 

 but bordered with olive, and tipped with white ; under parts of the 

 body pale ash-colour, inclining to yellow on the belly ; on the lower 

 part of the neck a yellowish bar, like a half-collar ; tail ash-colour, 

 the feathers pointed at the ends, the two middle ones plain, the 

 others white within ;# legs blackish. —Inhabits Louisiana. 



251.— OLIVE-BROWN WARBLER. 



Sylvia fusca, Lid. Om. ii. 543. 



Motacilla fusca, Gm. Lin. i. 973. 



Le Figuier brun olive, Buf. v. 318. 



Olive-brown Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 495. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 313. Shaw's Zool. x. 685. 



BILL brown ; plumage above olive-brown; throat, neck before, 

 and sides, whitish, varied with grey ; belly yellowish white ; under 

 tail coverts yellow ; wings brown ; the coverts and secondaries 

 bordered with paler; tips whitish; greater quills bordered with pale 

 grey ; tail brown, edges of the feathers grey; the two middle ones 

 tinged with yellow, the two outer spotted with white within, near 

 the tip ; the exterior one bordered with white ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Louisiana. This is supposed to differ only in sex from 

 the Grey-necked, and is thought to be the young bird. 



252 —GREY-THROATED WARBLER. 



Sylvia cana, Lnd. Om. ii. 543. 



Motacilla cana, Gm. Lin. i. 973. 



Le Figuier cendre il gorge cendree, Buf. v. 319. 



Grey-throated Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 496. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 315. 



BILL black, beneath grey; plumage cinereous, deeper on the 

 head, and upper parts ; quills edged with whitish ; tail black, the 



* Said to have ten in all, "Routes dix sont pointues par le bout."— Buffon. But we 

 know of none of this Genus, having less than twelve. 



