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The female is about half an inch shorter, and an inch less 

 in extent ; breast, cinereous brown ; upper part of the neck, 

 inclining to ash; the spot of changeable gold, green, and 

 carmine, much less, and not so brilliant ; tail-coverts, brownish 

 slate ; naked orbits, slate coloured ; in all other respects like 

 the male in colour, but less vivid, and more tinged with 

 brown ; the eye not so brilliant an orange. In both, the tail 

 has only twelve feathers. 



BLUE MOUNTAIN WAEBLEB. {Sylvia montana) 



PLATE XLIV.— Fig. 2. 



SYLVICOLA MONTANA.— 3 K-B.-DVS-&* 

 Sylvia tigrina, Bonap. Synop. p. 82. 



This new species was first discovered near that celebrated 

 ridge or range of mountains with whose name I have 

 honoured it. Several of these solitary warblers remain yet 

 to be gleaned up from the airy heights of our alpine scenery, 

 as well as from the recesses of our swamps and morasses, 

 whither it is my design to pursue them by every opportunity. 

 Some of these, I believe, rarely or never visit the lower 

 cultivated parts of the country, but seem only at home 

 among the glooms and silence of those dreary solitudes. The 

 present species seems of that family or subdivision of the 

 warblers that approach the flycatcher, darting after flies 

 wherever they see them, and also searching with great 

 activity among the leaves. Its song was a feeble screep, 

 three or four times repeated. 



This species is four inches and three-quarters in length ; 

 the upper parts, a rich yellow olive ; front, cheeks, and chin, 

 yellow, also the sides of the neck ; breast and belly, pale 



* Bonaparte is inclined to think that this is the Sylvia tigrina of 

 Latham. He acknowledges, however, not having seen the bird, and, as 

 we have no means at present of deciding the question, have retained 

 Wilson's name. Both this and the following will range in Sylvicola. — 

 Ed. 



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