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SCARLET-BACK WARBLER. 
(PI. XIV.) 
BEAK awl-shaped and strait ; the mandible almost equal, and slightly notched at top. 
NOSTRILS small, a little depressed. 
TONGUE lacerated on the margin. 
TOES the exterior toe joined at the under part to the base of the middle one. 
_Most of the birds of this gemis live upon insects, which obliges them to migrate south¬ 
ward in winter in Europe, and northward in New South Wales. 
LENGTH 
Four inches five-eighths ; bill quarter of an inch and black ; eye dark brown; 
lashes black ; forehead, crown, hind head, cheeks, and nape of the neck, deep 
shining blue-black ; chin, throat, breast, and part of the belly, black ; back a 
bright scarlet; shoulder black ; wings brown; lower part of belly and thighs pale 
brown ; rump black ; tail the same and cuneiform ; leg flesh colour ; claws brown. 
FEMALE 
Bill reddish-brown ; above the eye a streak of the same colour ; forehead, crown, 
neck, back, wings, and tail, brown ; chin, throat, breast, white; belly light oker. 
INHABITS 
Forests near the banks of Patterson’s River ; frequents low bushes. The male has a 
a pretty song very like that of the superb warbler. They go in small flocks. 
