HUFOUS AND BLACK WARBLER. 



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differs in having the plumage rufous brown on 

 the upper parts : the eyebrows are rufous ; the 

 secondaries are edged with the latter colour ; and 

 the two middle tail-feathers are wholly black : it 

 was found on the ice between Asia and America. 



RUFOUS AND BLACK WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia multicolor.) 



Sy. nigra, pectore^ colli lateribus, tectricim alarum majorum apice, 

 caudaque dimidiata rujis^ abdomine crissoque albis. 



Black Warbler, with the breast, sides of the neck, tip of the 

 greater wing-coverts, and half the tail, rufous ; the abdomen 

 and vent white. 



Sylvia multicolor. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 541. \26. 



Motacilla multicolor. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 972. 



Figuier noir. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 314. 



Figuier noir et jaune de Cayenne. Biiff. PI. Enl, SQl.jT. 2. 



Rufous and Black Warbler. Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 493. 121. 



Occasionally met with at Cayenne : it is five 

 inches in length : its beak and legs are brown : 

 the head, throat, and upper parts of the body and 

 wings are black, the tips of the greater wing- 

 coverts excepted, which are rufous, and form a 

 band of that colour on the wings : the sides of the 

 neck and breast are also rufous : the middle of 

 the breast, belly, and vent, are white : the base 

 half of the tail is rufous ; the tip black* 



