YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 



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This bird inhabits Christmas Island: it is as 

 large as the Domestic Finch : its beak is dusky : 

 the prevailing colour of its upper parts is testa- 

 ceous brown, the rump palest : the quills and tail 

 are brown, the latter slightly forked, ?ind crossed 

 with obsolete bars : the under parts of the body 

 are white : it has a short but not unpleasing 

 warble. 



YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia flavicollis.) 



Sy. grisea, suhtus alba, ad latera nigro-varia, Jronte,Jascia ocu- 

 lari rectricihusque nigris, lateribus interiori latere albidis, ma- 

 cula utrinque ad basin rostri gutturequejlavis. 



Grey Warbler, beneath white, towards the sides varied with 

 black ; the forehead, stripe through the eyes, and tail, black; 

 the lateral feathers white on their inner webs ; a spot on each 

 side the base of the beak and the throat yellow. 



Sylvia flavicollis. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 518. 35.-^VieiL Ois,de 

 VAmer. Sept. 2. 45. — Wils, Amer, Orn. 2. 64. 



Motacilla flavicollis. Gmel, Syst, Nat. 1. 959. 



Parus carolinensis griseus. Briss. Orn. 3. 563, 10. 



Mesange gris ^ gorge jaune. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 454. 



La Fauvette gris a gorge jaune. VieiL Ois, de VAmer. Sept, 2. 

 45. 



Yellow-throated Creeper. Catesb. Carol, I, pi. 62, 

 Yellow-throated Warbler. Pen, Arct, Zool, 2. 400. 286. — Lcdh. 

 Gen, Syn. 4. 437. 31. — Wils^ Amer. Orn. 2. 64, xiu.j: 6. 



The Yellow-throated Warbler is five inches and 

 a quarter in length: its beak is black; forehead 



