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RED-TAIL WARBLER. 



Inhabits Gibraltar : size of the Redstart : beak 

 dark brown : forehead, sides of the head, and 

 throat, black : hind head white : top of the head, 

 neck, back, wing-coverts, breast, and upper part 

 of the belly, blue-grey : lower part of the latter 

 white : quills grey-brown, with white margins : 

 rump and tail orange ; all the tips of the feathers 

 of the latter brown ; the two middle feathers en° 

 tirely brown : legs brown. 



RED-TAIL WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Erithracus.) 



Sy, dorso remigibusque cinereis, abdomine rectricibusque rufiSj ex- 

 timis duabus cinereis. 



Warbler with the back and quills ash-colour; the belly and tail- 

 feathers rufous, the outer feathers cinereous. 



Sylvia Erithracus. Lath. Ind. Or?7» 2. 513. IQ. 



Motacilla Erithracus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 335. 35.— -Lin. Faun. 

 Suec. 258. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 088. 



Phoenicurus torquatus. Briss. Orn. 3. 411. 18. male. 



Phcenicurus. Briss. Orn. 3. 409. 17« female. 



Rouge-queue a collier. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 5. 180. 



Red-tail. Ray. Syn. 78. 5. 2. — Will. Ang. 218. 7, 2. — Lath. 

 Gen. Syn. 4. 425. 14. 



Larger than the Redstart: beak dusky: the 

 top of the head, hind part of the neck and back, 

 scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts, grey : rump 

 rufous : greater wing-coverts and quills grey- 

 brown, margined with rufous : throat and under 



