SYLVIADiE. 



Inhabits Southern Europe. Length six inches: 

 the beak is feeble and straight : the orbits are naked 

 and red : the adult male in the spring has the top of 

 the head, the cheeks, the nape, and the back of an 

 ashy-leaden blue, more or less tinged with ashy-brown, 

 according to the season : the base of the beak, and a 

 band on the sides of the throat, white : the chin, 

 throat, and breast, vinaceous-red, varied in some pe- 

 riods with whitish : the middle of the belly whitish : 

 the sides more or less vinaceous : the wings are of a 

 dusky-ash edged with reddish-ash : the tail is black, 

 or dusky-brown ; the lateral feather white on its 

 outer web towards the tip ; the rest, except the two 

 middle ones, with the tip white : the base of the lower 

 mandible of the beak is yellowish, the rest deep brown. 

 The female has the upper parts less pure in colour : 

 the white band on the side of the throat is less di- 

 stinct : the throat is whitish: the breast slightly tinged 

 with vinaceous-red : the sides less distinctly vinaceous, 

 and the under parts whitish. 



Sp. 3. Me ? sardus. 



Me? cinereus, capite saturaiiore ; Jemoribus riifescentibus ; ventris 

 fnedio vinaceo-albido ; alis cauddque nigricantibus ; 7'ectrice ex- 

 teriore utrinque albo marginatd. 



Cinereous Songbird, with the head deeper ; the thighs reddish 5 

 the middle of the belly vinaceous-white ; the wings and tail 

 dusky J the outer feather of the last on each side edged with 

 white. 



Sylvia sarda. Marmora. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. i. 204. 

 Temm. PL Col 24./. 2— Marmora Warbler. Lath Gen. Hist. 

 vii. 39. 



Inhabits Sardinia. Length five inches : orbits of 

 a vermilion colour : crown, cheeks, and fore part of 



