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AWATCHA WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Awatcha.) 



SY.fusca, gula pectoreque albis nigro-maculatis, remigibus primo- 

 ribus margine albis, rectricibus basi aurantiis. 



Brown Warbler, with the throat and breast spotted with black ; 

 the primary quills edged with white, and the base of the tail- 

 feathers orange. 



Sylvia Awatcha. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 553. 167. 



Motacilla Awatcha. Gmel. Si/st, Nat. 1. 986. 



Awatcha Warbler. Pen. Arct, Zool. 2. 422. T. — Lath. Syn, 

 Sup, 184. 150. 



The Awatcha Warbler has the crown of the 

 head, and upper parts of the neck and bodjj deep 

 brown : from the nostrils to the eye an oblique 

 stripe of white: throat white, its sides spotted 

 with black : breast also white, sprinkled with spots 

 of black : sides of the body rusty : middle of the 

 belly and margins of the greater quills pure white: 

 base of the five outer tail-feathers deep orange, 

 tips brown : the two middle feathers totally brown* 

 Inhabits Kamtschatka. 



