^SO SYLVIAD^. 



Sp. 6. Sy. melanopogon, Temm. PI. Col. 245./. 2, 



Sy ? saturate-fuscajVertice strigisquelongitudinalibiis dorsi nigris ; 



Cauda valde cuneafd. 

 Deep-brown Warbler with the crown and longitudinal dorsal 



stripes black 3 the tail greatly wedged. 



Inhabits Italy. Length five inches : beak much 

 compressed, slender, and subulated : wings short : tail 

 moderate r the forehead, top of the head, and occi- 

 put sooty black, the lores with a black dash : the eye- 

 brows white : the nape, the back, the rump, and the 

 wings are reddish-brown ; each feather on the middle 

 of the back having a broad black stripe down the 

 shaft : the wing-coverts are also dusky-black in the 

 middle : the tail is reddish-brown above and ashy 

 beneath : the throat, a portion of the fore part of the 

 neck, and the middle of the belly are white ; the rest 

 of the under parts are brownish : the beak is brown 

 at its base, and black at its tip : the legs are brown. 



Sp. 7. Sy ? Cayana. Steph. v. x. p. 655. — Dauuria. 



Sp. 8. Sy .^^ Africana. Steph. v. x.p. 615. — Southern Africa. 



Sp. 9. Sy ? cyanocephala. Steph. v. x. p. 684. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 10. Sylvia speciosa. Temm. PL Col. 293./. 2. 



Sy ? saturate-cyanea, infrh cinereo-C(Brulea, crisso albido ; tectri' 



cibus iyiferioribus caudce castaneo-riifis / alis macula albd. 

 Deep-blue Warbler, beneath ashy-blue, with the vent whitish ; 



the lower tail-coverts chesnut-red 5 a white spot on the wings. 



Inhabits Brazil. The prevailing colour of the 

 upper parts of the plumage of this species is deep 

 blue ; which also forms a broad edging to the fea- 

 thers of the wings and tail ; the inner webs of the 

 last being black : the fifth and sixth quills have a 



