MURINE WARBLER. 



617 



Sylvia philippensis. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 525. 56. 



Motacilla philippensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 968. 



Rubetra philippensis major. Briss. Orn. 3. 446. 32. pL 22. f. 3. 



Grand Traquet des Philippines. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 230. 



—Buff. PI. Enl. lS5.f. 2. 

 Traquet de Manille. Salem. Orn. 225. 

 Philippine Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 453. 52. 



Length six inches and a quarter : beak dirty yel- 

 low: head reddish white, inclining to yellow: back, 

 wings, and tail, violet black ; wing-coverts with a 

 stripe of white, and outer edge of the wing with 

 another : some of the greater coverts have white 

 tips, forming a third stripe of that colour: the 

 neck dirty red : breast with a blueish band : belly 

 and vent reddish white : the outer tail-feathers 

 with rufous white margins on the exterior web ; 

 legs ferruginous. Inhabits the Philippine Isles. 



MURINE WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia murina.) 



Sy. murina, capite, collo caudaque nigris, stria oculari, abdomine, 



rectricumque extimarum margine albis. 

 Mouse-coloured Warbler, with the head, neck, and tail, black ; 



stripe through the eye, abdomen and margins of the outer 



tail-feathers white. 

 Sylvia murina. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 528. 73. 

 Motacilla murina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. l. 978. 

 Murine Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 463. 70, 



