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STONE-CHAT WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Rubicola.) 



Sy. grisea, subtus rufescens,jugulo fascia alba, loris nigris. 

 Grey Warbler, beneath reddish, with a white stripe on the jugu- 



lum, the lores black. 

 Sylvia Rubicola. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 523. 4^. 

 Motacilla Rubicola. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 332. 17. — Gmel, Syst, 



Nat. 1. 969. 



Rubetra. Briss. Orn. 3. 428. 25, pU 23.^. 1. male. 

 Traquet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 215. pL 13.— Buff. PL Enl. 

 678./ 1. 



Stone Smith, Stone Chatter, Moor Titling, or Stone-chat. 

 Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 159. — Will. Ang. 235. pL 41. — Albin. 

 Birds. 3. pi. 52. — Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi. 3g.*^Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 4. 448. 46. — Lewin. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 108. — Don. Brit. Birds. 

 4. pi. 92. — JValc. Syn. 2. pL 239.— -Mont. 2. — 



Betvick. Brit. Birds. 1. 233. 



A SOLITARY Species, weighing about five drams: 

 length five inches and a quarter : beak black : 

 irides dusky : the head and throat black ; on each 

 side the neck, immediately above the wings, is a 

 large white spot : the back and wing-coverts are 

 of a fine velvet black ; the feathers edged with 

 tawny: the quills are dusky, the lesser ones edged 

 on their outer webs with bright ferruginous : the 

 coverts black, slightly tipped and edged with rusty 

 brown, except some of the larger ones near the 

 body, which are of a pure white, forming a large 

 conspicuous spot on the wing : the lower part of 

 the rump and tail-coverts white : the breast deep 



