. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . same colours, and the rump red; throatand middle of the belly white; the crop, sides of neck,flanks, and under tail coverts russet yellow. AVings 92 FANTAIL WARliLKR. like the back; the primaries with less black in thecentre of the feathers; tail brownish black, the ends ofthe quills tipped with ash-colour; beak, (wliich iscurved,) feet, and iris brown. According to Savi the interior of the beak of thefemale during breeding time is yellow, that of the maleviolet black. The young before the first moult resemble the oldbirds
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . same colours, and the rump red; throatand middle of the belly white; the crop, sides of neck,flanks, and under tail coverts russet yellow. AVings 92 FANTAIL WARliLKR. like the back; the primaries with less black in thecentre of the feathers; tail brownish black, the ends ofthe quills tipped with ash-colour; beak, (wliich iscurved,) feet, and iris brown. According to Savi the interior of the beak of thefemale during breeding time is yellow, that of the maleviolet black. The young before the first moult resemble the oldbirds, only the spots on the upper part of the pbmiageare less, and not so dark. My figure is from a specimen sent me by M. Figured also by Temminck and Laug, 6, f. 3; Roux, Ornith. Prov., pL 232; Gould, E.; Miihle, Monograph, in two plumages, one thenormal type described above, the other having no spotsor stripes on the vertex. The sj)ecimen was broughtfrom Greece by Count Miihle, and is exactly the sameas those described by Temminck from CETTlci WAl;BLEE. 93 INSECTIVOR^. Famihj SYLVIAD^. Genus Sylvia. (Latham.) CETTPS WARBLER. Sylvia cetti. Sylvia cetti, sencea,Cettia altisonans et cetti,Salicaria cetti, Bee-fin Bouscarle, Bee-fin Cetti,Cettis Molirsanger,Usignuolo di Fiume, Marmoea; Mem. clella Acad, di Torino, vol. xxy., p. ; Man., ; Europ. Faun., Gerbe; Mag. de Zool., ; Monog., , Ch. Bonaparte, Gerbe; Diet., , and Blasius; Der Wirbeltliiere, ; Eevue, 1844. Of the French. Of the Germans. Of Cetti; in TJcc. di Sardegna. Specific Characters.—Upper parts of the body unicolorous richdark chesnut brown; superciHary ridge whitish, long, and narrow;the tail rounded, consisting of only ten quills; tarsi clear primary of medium length, second equal to ninth, tlie thirdshorter than the fourth, fourth and fifth longest. 94 CETTls AVAUU
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