INSECTIVOR^. 



Family SYLVIADyE. 



Genus Sylvia, f Latham. J 



SPECTACLED WARBLEE. 



Sylvia conspicillata. 



Sylvia conspicillata. 



Curruca conspicillata, 

 Fauvette a Lunettes, 

 Brillen Strauchsanger, 

 Sterpazzola di Sardegna, 



M' zizzee, 



De la Maemoea; Mem. della 



Acad, di Torino, 1819. 

 Temminck; Man., 1820. 



BONAPAETE; 1838. 



Keyseeling & Blasius; 1840. 



ScHiNz; Eur. Fann., 1840. 



ScHLEGEL; Eevue, 1844, 



Degland; 1844. 



MiiHLE; 1856. 



Z. Geebe; Diet., 1848. 



Of the Feench. 



Oe the Geemans. 



Op Savi. 



Aeabic; (Salyin.) 



Specific Characters. — The secondaries broadly fringed with red. 

 The two outer tail feathers almost entirely white; the two next 

 on each side only white at the point; first primary shorter than 

 the fifth, but longer than the sixth; the second and third equal 

 and longest. 



Length of an adult male, sent me by M. E. Verreaux, nearly 

 five inches; carpus to tip two inches and a half; tarsus eight-tenths 

 of an inch. 



