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SYLVIAD^. 



Sylvia flaviatilis. Temm. Man. d'Orn, 2 Edit. i. 183.-- Danu- 

 bian Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 33. 



Inhabits Austria and Hungary. Length five 

 inches four lines : plumage above olive, shaded with 

 brown : throat white, with numerous longitudinal olive 

 spots : breast and sides of the neck olive-white, with 

 lance-shaped deeper coloured spots : middle of the 

 belly white : under tail-coverts olive-brown, with white 

 tips : tail much wedged : hind claw very long and 

 hooked. Greatly allied to the immediately preceding 

 species, 



Sp. 23. Cu? venusta. 



Cu? cceruleO'grisea, infra aurea; dorso olivaceo ^ iectricium ajoi- 

 cibm albis. 



Blue-grey Whitethroat ? beneath golden ; the back olive 3 the tips 



of the coverts white. 

 Sylvia venusta. Temm. PI. Col. 293. f. 1. — Sylvia plumbea. 



Svoain. Zool. Illiist. iii. pi. 139, 



Inhabits Brazil. Length nearly four inches : the 

 upper part of the head, the nape, cheeks, scapulars, 

 rump, and borders of the wings and tail-feathers are 

 bright ashy-blue : the middle of the back is oliva- 

 ceous ; on the wings are two white stripes ; and at 

 the base of the two lateral tail-feathers is a white 

 spot : the throat and fore part of the neck are bright 

 yellow : the belly and sides are of a jonquil yellow : 

 the vent and thighs are white : the upper mandible 

 of the beak is dusky, the lower white. 



