6 

 BARRED WARBLER. 



Sylyia nisoria, Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 435-438, pi. 68 

 (coloured figures of adult male and young female), 1874 ; Seebohm, 

 British Birds, vol. i, pp. 387-389, pi. 10, fig. 1 (egg), 1883 ; Lilford, 

 Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 60, pi. 30 (coloured figures of adults), 

 1890; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 51-52 

 (woodcut), 1897. 



French, Fauvette dperviere ; German, Sperber-Grasmiicke ; Hungarian, 

 Savos poszdta ; Italian, Calega padovana ; Eussian, Slavha pestrogrudaza ; 

 Swedish, Ho'kfargad. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 



Adult Male in Spring. — The upper parts are brownish 

 grey, rather more ash colour on the crown, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts. The feathers on the forehead and shoulders and 

 the upper tail-coverts have a narrow light tip bordered with 

 a narrow darker bar which gives to these parts a barred 

 appearance. The flight feathers are brown, narrowly edged 

 with whitish brown, the larger wing-coverts and innermost 

 secondaries being tipped with white; this pattern on the 

 secondaries, wing-coverts, and median wing-coverts forms 

 two distinct whitish bars on the closed wing. The smaller 

 wing-coverts are brownish grey like the back, the pattern 

 described above being scarcely discernible, the bastard wing is 

 dark brown edged with white, and the primary coverts brown, 

 narrowly edged with light brown. The tail feathers are ash 

 grey, the outermost having a narrow white edge with a con- 

 spicuous wedge-shaped white spot on the inner web, and the 

 shafts are reddish brown. The lores are dark grey and the 

 ear-coverts the same colour as the crown. The underparts are 

 whitish, each feather having a dark greyish brown bar near 

 the end which gives the crop and flanks a barred appearance. 

 The abdomen proper is almost uniformly white. The under 

 tail-coverts are light brown broadly tipped with white, and 



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