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INSECTIVOrviE. 

 Family SYLVIAJDJE, 



Genus Sylvia. (Latham.) 



FANTAIL WARBLER. 



Sylvia cisticola. 



Sylvia cisticola, 



" iypus, 

 Cisticola scJicenicola, 



Salicaria cisticola, 



Riverain Cisticole, 

 Cisten Hohrsanger, 

 Beccamosche, 



Temminck; Man., 228, 1820. 

 ViEiLloT; Paun. Fr., p. 227. 

 Savi; Ornith. Tosc, 1827. 

 ScHiNZ; Europ. Faun., 1840. 

 MuHLE; Monog., 1856. 

 EtJppELL; Neue Wirb. Vogel, 

 p. 113. 



BONAPAETE, 1838. 



DuEAZZO, Uccelli Liguri, 1840. 



Z. Geebe; Diet., 1848. 



Degland, 1849. 



Keyseeling and Blasius, 1840. 



Schlegel; Eevue, 1844. 



Of the Feencii. 



Of the Geemans. 



Of Savi. 



Specific Characters. — The fan-shaped tail grey brown, each tail 

 feather tipped with white, and with a black spot near the extremity 

 of each; no white band over the eyes; beak curved downwards. 

 Length of a specimen sent me by M. E. Verreaux, three inches 

 and four-fifths; from carpus to tip two inches and one-fifth; tail 

 one inch and three-quarters; tarsus nine-tenths of an inch; beak, 

 from gape, three-fifths of an inch. 



