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SYLVIAD^. 



nape, and back deep cinereous ; scapulars and rump 

 tipped with brown and white stripes : wings pale ash : 

 tail the same : the outer feathers tipped with a white 

 spot, which also bccupies part of the inner web ; on 

 the next the same, but the spot smaller ; the third 

 and fourth ashy, edged and tipped with white : throat, 

 neck, breast, and sides white, striped across with cine- 

 reous-grey bands : middle of the belly white : the 

 under tail-coverts cinereous, deeply edged with white. 

 The female has the upper parts plainer, and the tail 

 very little marked with white : the young is striped 

 across both above and beneath. 



This bird lays four or five ashy-white eggs, spotted 

 with reddish-ash. 



Sp. 19. Cu. Certhiola. 



Cu ? olivaceo-fusca fusco maculata ; guld, collo antice, ventrisque 

 medio albis; hypochondriis, crisso tectricibusque inferioribus 

 caudce rvfescentibus ; caudd elongaid, cuneatd, apice cinered. 



Olive-brown Whitethroat spotted with brown j with the throat, 

 neck before, and middle of the belly white ; the sides, vent, and 



. . under tail-coverts reddish the tail elongated, wedged, its tip 

 ash-coloured. 



Sylvia Certhiola. Temm. Man. dOrn, 2 Edit, i. 186. — Russian 

 Warbler. Lath Gen. Hist. v. vii. ^9. 31. 



Inhabits the south of Russia. Length five inches : 

 beak black : plumage above olive-brown, with oblong 

 dusky brown spots : chin, fore part of the neck, and 

 middle of the belly white : beneath the chin a zone 

 of oval brown specks : sides, belly, and under tail- 

 coverts light rufous, the last with white ends : tail 

 long, greatly cuneiform, the feathers on the upper 

 part tipped with ash-colour; beneath dusky, at the 



