6% ^ SUB-ALPINE WARBLER. 



three parts of their length, the two following only 

 tipped with white; heak brown, reddish at the base 

 below; iris yellow; legs and feet flesh-coloured. In 

 autumn the upper parts are grey, more or less tinted 

 with olive or russet; inferior parts of a less bright 

 red, clearer on the flanks, and the abdomen whiter. 



The female has the upper parts uniformly olive 

 brown, with a tinge of bluish grey about the head and 

 nape; the under parts much less red than in the 

 male, but in my specimen the colour which is a faintly 

 reddish white, is more uniformly dispersed. 



The young before the first moult have the superior 

 parts, according to Degland, (whose descriptions are in 

 general most accurate,) of a reddish ash; the inferior 

 parts reddish, or a clear brown, with the middle of the 

 abdomen white. Wings brown, all the coverts being 

 broadly bordered with reddish; tail feathers brown, 

 fringed with reddish ash, the external feather of each 

 side bordered and terminated with whitish ash. In a 

 young male bird sent me by M. Verreaux, the colours 

 are very similar to, but fainter than those of the adult 

 male; the abdomen is more mottled. In none of the 

 specimens is the abdomen of a pure white. 



Figured by Temminck and Laugier, pi. col. 251, f. 

 2 and 3, (male and female;) Eoux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 

 218, f. 1 and 2, (adults;) Gould, B. of E. 



My figures of this bird are from specimens sent me 

 by M. Verreaux. 



