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place, even after that portion of the fourth Volume, in which the 

 warbiers are defcribed, was worked off ; the defcription being printed 

 upon a fingle leaf, in a fmaller type, and fubfequently affixed in the 

 volume, that it might appear in its proper feries, among the warbler 

 tribe. 



The fpecimcns from which Dr. Latham's defcription was taken, 

 pafTed into our pofTeflTion, with the reft of his collection of Britifh 

 birds, about twenty years ago ; and thofe of Sir Afhton Lever, irv 

 the year 1808, the period in which we obtained Sir Afliton's col- 

 ledlion of Britifli birds, through the difTolution of that well known ef- 

 tablifhment, the Leverian Mufeum. We thus poflefs every individual 

 bird defcribed originally under the title of the Greater Pettychaps, 

 and, confequently, thofe upon which all difcufiion refpefting the 

 identity of a fpecies fo much rniftaken, muft, in a material degree, 

 depend : it is from thofe our figure and defcription are taken. 



This bird is about the fize, or rather fmaller, than the hedge 

 fparrow; the length, between five and fix inches. The upper part* 

 of the plumage greyifh brown, tinged with a greenifh hue : the under 

 parts dufky white, with a little brown, inclining to blackifh ; acrofs 

 the breaft and over the thighs, on the latter of which, the colour 

 is darkefl : the quills are brown, the edges of the feathers with a 

 greenifli tint like the upper parts of the plumage, and over the eye, a 

 pale or whitifh ftreak, which paffing from the bafe of the bill, forms 

 a lobate or rounded fpot behind the eye. All the tail feathers are uni- 

 formly dull brown, the bill and legs brown. Both fexes are nearly 

 alike, except that the colours of the male are rather darkeft. 



