198 WARBLER. 



Little Brown Sparrow, Cates. Car. i. 35. 



Rush Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 420. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 323. Shaw's Zool. x. 587. 



LESS than our Hedge Sparrow ; length four inches and three 

 quarters. Bill brown; body entirely brown, paler beneath; tail 

 somewhat forked ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Virginia and Carolina, commonly seen near the houses, 

 the whole year, but not numerous; most frequently observed single, 

 hopping under bushes, and has much of the nature of the Hedge 

 Sparrow, insomuch that some have thought it a Variety. 



264.— SIMPLE WARBLER. 



Sylvia campestris, Ind. Om. i. 544. 



Motacilla eampestris, Lin.i. 324. Gm. Lin. i. 953. 



Curruca sepiaria Jamaicensis, Bris. App. 100. Id. 8vo. i. 456. 



L' Habit uni, Buf. v. 336. 



American Hedge Sparrow, Edw. pi. 122. 1. 



Simple Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 500. Shaw's Zool. x. 534. 



SIZE of the Hedge Sparrow, but the bill more stout, and black; 

 head and neck greenish ash-colour; body above, wings, and tail, 

 rufous brown ; beneath brownish white ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Jamaica. — One of these, in the collection of the late Sir 

 Ashton Lever, was little more than four inches long; nearly black 

 above, beneath pale ash-colour ; quills and tail dusky. 



265— EQUATORIAL WARBLER. 



Sylvia squinoctialis, Ind. Om. ii. 542. Vieill. Am. ii. pi. 81. 

 Motacilla aequinoctialis, Gm. Lin. i. 973. 

 Figuier olive de Cayenne, PL enl. 685. 1. Baf.v. 315. 

 Le contre-maitre verdatre, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 159. 

 Equatorial Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 493. Shaw's Zool. x. 606. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill black ; plumage above 

 greenish brown ; beneath yellowish white ; throat and breast pale 

 yellow; quills and tail dusky brown ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne, throughout the year. 



