196 WARBLER. 



the eye a wrinkled, naked, yellowish skin,* giving the appearance 

 of spectacles: the irides are yellow, and the pupil blue; tail 

 even, and when spread, forms an almost equilateral triangle in 



shape.f 



The female has the colours less defined : throat white ; sides of 

 the head whitish and brown ; all the upper parts dusky and light 

 brown mixed; all beneath pale rufous ; fore part of the neck dashed 

 with dusky pale red, and dirty white ; above the eye an indistinct 

 pale trace. 



Inhabits the neighbourhood of the River Plate, in South America, 

 especially about Monte Video : the male solitary, except in breeding 

 time, when six are often seen together. 



260— GUIANA REDTAIL WARBLER. 



Sylvia Guianensis, hid. Orn. ii. 514. 



Motacilla Guianensis, Gm. Lin. i. 988. 



Le Rouge-queue de la Guiane, Buf. v. 186, PL enl. 6SG. 2. 



La Queue sanguine, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 239. 



Grimpart, Tern. Man. F.d. ii. Anal. p. Ixxxii. 



Guiana Redtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 426. Shaw's Zool. x. 678. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill pale ; plumage on the 

 upper parts in general grey, the under white; wings and tail rufous; 

 the latter pretty long ; legs pale flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Guiana. — One of these met with in August in Paraguay; 

 which, according to Azara, had the whole of the upper parts gilded 

 red;J tail blood-red; sides of the head, and all the under parts brown, 

 lighter towards the tail. 



* Much resembles the Yellow Lichen found on the tiles of houses. 

 f Said to consist only of eight feathers, but having counted twelve in one specimen, we 

 may suppose all of them to have the same number. J Mordore. 



