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DARTFORD WARBLER, 

 ( Sylvia Dartfordiensis.) 



Sy. spadicea, suhtus Jerruginea, abdominis medio, remigum mar' 

 gine, alis spuriis, et rectricum extlmarum exteriori latere albis^ 

 palpebris rubris. 



Chesnut-coloured Warbler, beneath ferruginous, with the mid- 

 dle of the belly, the edges of the quills, bastard wing, and 

 the outer margin of the exterior tail-feather, white; eyelids 

 ' red. 



Sylvia provincialis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 517. 31. 

 Motacilla provincialis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 958. 

 Pitchou de Provence. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 158.— Buff. PI. 

 Enl. 655. f. 1. 



Dartford Warbler. Pen, Brit, Zool. l.lQl. pi. SG.'^Lath. Gen. 

 Syn, 4. 435. 27. — Lath, Syn. Sup. 181. 27. — Lath, Syn. Sup. 

 II. 241. lO.—Dow. Brit. Birds. I. pi, 10. — LetJoin, Brit, Birds. 

 3. pi. i06.—Monf. Orn. Diet. 2.— Mont. Sup.—Mont. Lin, 

 Trans. 7. 280. and Q, 19 1. — Beuoich, Brit. Birds, 1. 203. 



This singular Warbler is rather larger than the 

 Wren : its length is five inches and a half: beak 

 black, at the base of the upper mandible whitish : 

 irides and eyelids yellow : the whole upper parts 

 are of a dusky brown : cheeks dark ash : throat, 

 neck, and breast, deep ferruginous; sides the 

 same, but not so bright : middle of the belly 

 white : quills dusky ; the outer webs slightly 

 edged with dark cinereous, those next the body 

 and the coverts with dark ferruginous brown : at 

 the bend of the wing, beneath the alula spuriarae, 

 is a spot of white : the tail is greatly wedged : the 



