. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . th. Prov., pi. 21;Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 24; Gould, in B. of E.,pi. 129, as Sardinian Warbler. 38 INSECTIVOR^. Family SYLVIADJE. Genus Sylvia. (Latham.) SPECTACLED WARBLER. Sylvia conspicillata. Sylvia conspicillata, Curruca conspicillata,Fauvette a Lunettes,JBrillen Strauchsanger,Sterpazzola di Sardegna, M zizzee. De la Maemoea; Mem. della Acad, di Toriuo, ; Man., ; & Blasius; ; Eur. Faun., ; Kevue, ; ; Geebe; Diet.,
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . th. Prov., pi. 21;Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 24; Gould, in B. of E.,pi. 129, as Sardinian Warbler. 38 INSECTIVOR^. Family SYLVIADJE. Genus Sylvia. (Latham.) SPECTACLED WARBLER. Sylvia conspicillata. Sylvia conspicillata, Curruca conspicillata,Fauvette a Lunettes,JBrillen Strauchsanger,Sterpazzola di Sardegna, M zizzee. De la Maemoea; Mem. della Acad, di Toriuo, ; Man., ; & Blasius; ; Eur. Faun., ; Kevue, ; ; Geebe; Diet., the the Geemans,Of (Salvin.) Specific Characters.—The secondaries broadly fringed with two outer tail feathers almost entirely white; the two nexton each side only white at the point; first primary shorter thanthe fifth, but longer than the sixth; the second and third equaland longest. Length of an adult male, sent me by M. E. Verreaux, nearlyfive inches; carpus to tip two inches and a half; tarsus eight tenthsof an SPSCTACLFD WAFiBLKK. SPECTACLED WARBLER. 39 This beautiful little Warbler was stated by Temminck,in his first edition, to belong exclusively to Sardinia;but, although limited in its range, it has been discoveredin Sicily, Spain, in the States of the Church, and byCount Miihle in Greece. It is also included in CaptainLoches Catalogue, by whom it is stated to occur inthe three provinces of Algeria. M. O. Salvin, in the Ibis, for July, 1859, mentionsits occurrence in the Salt Lake districts of the EasternAtlas of Africa, where it is found abundantly in thelow shrubs of the uncultivated portions of that states that it is very shy, and skulks from bush tobush as any one approaches. Malherbe remarks that itonly breeds in Sicily, migrating in the winter; but CountMiihle doubts this statement, as he has frequently seenit in winter in Greece, in company with S. Warbler was discovered by Marmora, in
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