LESSER WHITE-THROAT. 
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probably towards the Asiatic continent, being 
mentioned as arriving there by Temminck, and in 
the Dukhun by Colonel Sykes, while we do not 
know of its appearing on the coast of Africa, 
where so many of our warblers pass over from 
the nearest parts of the European Continent. 
In general appearance and distribution of 
colours this a good deal resembles the last. The 
crown, nape, and rump are bluish gray ; the 
centre of the back and rump pale yellowish 
brown tinted with grey. The wings and tail 
brocali brown, having the tertials and covers 
broadly edged with yellowish brown, and the 
tail, which is rather longer in proportion than in 
the last, and even at the end, has the outer web 
and tips of the three exterior feathers white. 
The throat and centre of belly pure white, tinted 
on the breast and sides with reddish, and having 
a shade of pink over the whole. The flanks are 
yellowish brown, with the same shade of pink. 
The sexes here do not differ any more than the 
last, except in intensity of the tints, and the 
female being of a more yellowish brown above, 
particularly where these spots are grey in the 
male. Iris reddish brown. 
SALICARIA. 
As we previously stated, we have thought it 
right to keep the aquatic warblers under the title 
of Salicaria, proposed for them by Mr Selby, 
and separated from the last sub-genus as form- 
