wing-coverts pale reddish brown, clouded with darker brown ;
quill-feathers dark brown ; wing-coverts and tertials edged
with pale brown; upper tail-coverts decidedly rufous ; tail-
feathers uniform brown ; the tail rounded, the outside feather
on each side being three-eighths of an inch shorter than those
of the middle. Chin and throat white ; breast, belly, flanks,
and under tail-coverts, buff colour, darkest on the flanks;
under surface of tail-feathers dusky brown; legs, toes, and
claws, pale brown.
The whole length of the bird four inches and three-quarters.
This bird is as large in the body as the Grasshopper
Warbler; but its tail-feathers are much shorter. From the
carpal joint to the end of the longest quill-feather, two inches
and a half: the first feather very short; the second and third
equal in length, and the longest in the wing.
The female has less of the rufous colour in the upper tail-
coverts ; and the whole of the under surface from the chin to
the vent is darker in colour than the same parts in the male,
and has a dingy appearance from being mixed with dusky
brown.
INSESSORES.
DENl'IROSTBES .
SYLVIA D/E.
SAVES WARBLER.
S a l i c a r i a l u s c i n o id e s .
Sylvia luscinoides, Willow Locustelle, G ould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxi.
M t) Becjin des sanies, T emm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. iii. p. 119.
’’ t Salciajola, Sav i, Ornith. Tusc. t. i. p. 270.
S e v e r a l examples of this warbler have lately been procured
in this country. The first specimens were obtained m
the fens of Cambridgeshire, in the spring of 1840, by Mr. J.
Baker, and by him presented to the British Museum ; of
these birds a notice was published by Mr. George R. Gray,
in the sixth volume of the Annals of Natural History, page
155. Since that time Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Saffron Walden,
has also obtained a pair of these birds, which are deposited m
the museum at Saffron Walden, and were obligingly devoted
for a time to my use.
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