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WHITE-EYED WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Madagascariensis.) 



Sy. viridescenSs suhtus albida, gula crissoque Jlavis, pnlpehris 

 albis^ 



Greenish Warbler, beneath whitish, with the throat and vent 



yellow, the palpebrse white. 

 Sylvia madagascariensis. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 533. 94. 

 Motacilla madagascariensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 98 1. 

 Motacilla mederaspatana. Lin, Syst. Nat, 1. 334. 28. 

 Ficedula madagascariensis minor. Briss. Orn. 3. 498. 54. pi, 



2S.f. 2. 



Le Cheric. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 279. 

 White-eyed Warbler. Ljath. Gen. Syn, 4. 475. 91. 



This inliabits the Isles of France and Mada- 

 gascar, and also Madras : it is a solitary species, 

 rarely appearing near inhabited places : it is not 

 quite four inches in length : its beak is grey- 

 brown : the orbits of the eyes are white : the head 

 and upper parts of the body are olive-green : the 

 throat and vent are yellow, the intermediate parts 

 being whitish : the quills are pale brown, edged 

 with olive : the two middle tail-feathers are olive- 

 green, the rest brown, with olive margins : legs 

 cinereous. 



