SARDINIAN WARBLER. 37 



Tlie first primary is short; the second, third, and fourth 

 longer and equal in size. Eye-lashes brick red; the 

 naked and swollen eyelids cinnaba,r red. Beak, tolerably 

 large and strong, is black. Iris nut brown; feet blackish 

 brown. 



The female has the whole upper parts of the body 

 brownish grey; wing and tail feathers brownish black, 

 with a someAvhat brighter edge ; the white of the external 

 tail quill is shaded with russet and grey. Throat white, 

 and rest of under parts of the body whitish, tinted with 

 greyish brown; the belly still darker. Eyelids and eye- 

 lashes yellowish red. 



Degland remarks that specimens he received from 

 M. A. Malherbe, killed in the neighbourhood of Genes, 

 were smaller than those received from the south of 

 France. The colours were more pure, approaching to 

 blue on the back, sides, and upon the silvery white in 

 front of the neck and middle of the chest and belly. 



My figures of this bird and its egg are from specimens 

 sent me by M. E. Verreaux. 



It is also figured by E.oux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 21; 

 Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 24; Gould, in B. of E., 

 pi. 129, as Sardinian Warbler. 



