CITRINE WARBLEll. 601 



Ficedula Borbonica. Briss, Orn. 3. 510. QO. pi. 2S,Jl 3. 

 Petit Simon. Bi/f, Hist, Nat, Ois. 5. 280. 

 Figuier de I'isle de Bourbon. Buff. PL Enl. 705. f, 2. 

 Bourbon Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 475. 92. 



The Bourbon Warbler flies in flocks : it feeds 

 on insects : its nest is formed in the spring, of dried 

 plants, lined with hair : it lays three blue eggs : 

 it is a native of Madagascar and the Isle of Bour- 

 bon : it is the size of the V/hite-eyed Warbler : 

 its beak, legs, and upper parts of its body, are 

 grey-brown : the quills and tail plain brown, edged 

 with grey-brown : the under parts of the plumage 

 dirty yellowish grey. 



CITRINE WARBLER. 

 ( Sylvia citrina. ) 



Sy, flava, supra atro-striata, genis, gutture pectoreque albis, cauda 



nigra apice Jiava. 

 Yellow Warbler, above striped with dusky, with the cheeks, 



throat, and breast, white ; the tail black, tipped with yellow. 

 Sylvia citrina. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 529. 7^' 

 Motacilla citrina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 979. 

 Citrine Warbler. Latlu Gen. Syn. 4. 464. 73. 



" Size of a Wren: length three inches and a 

 half: beak three quarters of an inch long, straight, 

 and black : irides very pale blue : plumage above 

 yellow, streaked with dusky : sides of the head, 

 beneath the eye, fore-part of the neck, and breast. 



