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WHIN-CHAT WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Rubetra.) 



Sy. nigricans, superciliis albis, macula alarum alba, gula pectore- 

 quejianescente. 



Dusky Warbler, with white eyebrows, a white spot on the wings, 



and the throat and breast yellowish. 

 Sylvia Rubetra. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 525. 58. 

 Motacilla Rubetra, Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 332. l6. — Lin, Faun. 



Suec. 255. — Gmel. Si/st. Nat, 1. 967. 

 Rubetra major sive Rubicola. Briss. Orn. 3. 432, 26. pi, 24. 



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CEnanthe secunda, et Ficedula tertia Aldrovandis. Will, Orn. 



232. 234.— 76. 77. 

 Grand Traquet ou Tarier. Buff. Hist. Nat, Ois. 5. 224.Suf. 



PL Enl. 67%. f. 2. 

 Whin-chat. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 158.— Pen. Arct. Zool. 2, 421. 



'R.^Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi. 39. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 454. 54. 



— Don, Brit. Birds. 2. pi. 60. — Levoin. Brit, Birds. 3. pi. IO9. 



— Wale, Syn, 2. pi, 140. — Mont. Orn, Diet, 2.--Bexvick. Brit, 



Birds. 1. 231. 



Length five inches : beak black : irides dark 

 hazel : crown of the head, cheeks, hind part of 

 the neck, back, and upper tail-coverts, black, 

 each feather edged with rufous brown, giving the 

 bird a pretty spotted appearance : from the upper 

 mandible a broad white streak passes over the eye 

 on each side to the back of the head, where it 

 almost meets ; from the chin another white streak 

 passes down each side of the neck : wing-coverts 

 and quills dusky black, slightly edged with rufous 

 brown : on the wing, near the shoulder, is a large 



