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allen’s naturalist’s library. 
They have sometimes been placed with the True Warblers in the 
genus Sylvia, but they are totally different in colour from the 
members, of that genus, are inhabitants of dry countries, and 
have much longer feet than is usual in the genus Sylvia ; they 
also have the rictal bristles, according to Mr. E. W. Oates, 
placed in a horizontal row, without any supplementary bristles, 
as in the above-named genus. 
THE RUFOUS WARBLER. AEDON GALACTODES. 
Aedon galactodes (Temm.), Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 355 (1873) ; 
Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 547, pi. 85 (1874) ; B. O. U. 
List Br. B., p. 18 (1883); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B., pt. 
xi. (1889); Saunders, Man., p. 67 (1889). 
Sylvia .galactodes, Seeb., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., v., p. 34 (1S81); 
id. Br. B., i., p. 418 (1883). 
Adult Male. — General colour above light cinnamon-rufous, the 
whole of the upper surface being uniform, but the rufous 
colour deepening towards the rump and upper tail-coverts, 
which incline to darker cinnamon-rufous or light chestnut; 
the four centre tail-feathers are not tipped with white, but have 
a blackish-brown spot at the end, reduced to a small shaft-spot 
on the two middle feathers ; all the other tail-feathers with a 
broad white spot at the ends, increasing in size on the outer 
ones, and having a large, subterminal spot of black ; lesser and 
median wing-coverts like the back, but inclining to whitv- 
brown on their edges ; the greater coverts dusky, inclining to 
rufous externally and to whity-brown on the margins ; primary 
coverts and quills dusky-brown, edged with rufous like the 
back, the secondaries fringed with whitish round their ends ; 
head like the back, with a creamy buff eyebrow ; a dusky 
streak from the lores through the eye ; sides of face sandy- 
buff, the ear-coverts a little browner; a faint moustachial line 
of dusky brown ; cheeks and under surface of body sandy-buff, 
inclining to creamy-white on the throat, breast, abdomen, and 
under tail-coverts ; flanks washed with cinnamon, as also the 
under wing-coverts ; quill-lining rufous ; bill brown, the lower 
mandible yellowish horn-colour ; feet and claws brown ; iris 
hazel. Total length, 6'5 inches; culmen, 665; wing, 3'45 ; 
tail, s'8 ; tarsus, rj. 
