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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons

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he auditory orifice; wingcoverts brown, thickly bordered with ash grey; pri-maries blackish, bordered with grey; tail quills brown,bordered with greyish, the most external of each havingan ashy tint. Beak brown above, yellowish below andon the edges of the mandibles; feet yellowish, withthe bottom of the toes yellow; iris bright brown;first primary short, second and third equal and thelongest. In autumn the plumage is yellow russet above, withblack spots in the centre of the feathers, as in spring;below of a clearer russet; all the quills of the wingsand tail bordered with yellowish red or grey. Young after the first moult resemble the old birds,but have on the neck and flanks brown striae, more orless numerous.—(Degland.) 84 AQUATIC WARBLER. My figure is taken from a male in breeding-plumagesent me by M. E. Verreaux. Figured by Naumann, Taf. 82, avIio also figures ontlie same plate tlie so-called, species cariceti, svhich is,however, only a dark variety of aquatica. (Jould, B.of E.
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M O U ? i ACHED W A R B r. K K. 85 INSECTIYOR^. Family SYLVIAD^. Genus Sylvia. (Latliam.) MOUSTACHED WARBLER. Sylvia melanopogen. Sylvia melanopogen. Calamodyta melanopogen,Salicana melanopogen. Cettia melanopogen. Bee-fin a Moustaches Noires,Schwarzharfiger Rohrsdnger,Torapaglie Castagnolo, Temminck; Man., 2nd. Ed., p. 121, 1835.ScHiNZ; Europ. Faun., 1840.MiJHLE; Monograph, 1856.bonapabte, 1838.Keyseeling and Blasius, 1840.ScHLEGEL; E,evue, 1844.Z, Gebbe; Diet., 1848,Degland, 1849.Of the Feench.Of the Geemans.Of Savi. Specific Characters.—Beak very slender, and drawn inwards;eyebrows broad and white; the vertex, lore, and a spot behindthe eyes black; twelve quills in the tail; tarsi blackish. Lengthfour inches and a half; carpus to tip two inches and one fifth; tailone inch and a half; tarsus nine tenths of an inch; beak, fromgape, half an inch. 86 MOUSTACIIKI) WAUr.I.KH. The Moustachcd AVarblcr is a rare bird, for, not-withstanding the statement of Tcmminck that it iscommon in the

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