_Sylvicola eoa._—+Mihi.+
[39] Length 5 inches, expanse 7⁶⁄₁₀, flexure 2⁷⁄₂₀, tail 1⁹⁄₁₀,
rictus ⁶⁄₁₀, (nearly), tarsus ⁹⁄₁₀, middle toe ¹⁄₂. Irides dark
hazel; feet horn-colour; beak pale horn, culmen and tip darker.
Male. Upper parts olive, approaching to yellow on the rump: sides
of head marked with a band of orange, extending from the ear to
the beak, and meeting both on the forehead and on the chin. Wing
quills and coverts blackish with yellowish edges. Tail blackish
olive, with yellow edges; the outermost two feathers on each side,
have the greatest portion of the inner webs pale yellow. Under
parts pale yellow. The crown, rump, tertials, belly, and under
tail-coverts, are sparsely marked with undefined patches of pale
orange. Female. Nearly as the male, but the deep orange is spread
over the whole cheeks, chin, throat, and breast. The head and back
are dusky grey, tinged with olive, and patched with the fulvous,
much more largely, but irregularly, and as if _laid upon_ the
darker hue.
The pair of singularly marked Warblers which I describe below, were
shot on the 21st and 24th of January at Crabpond. That the male in
summer plumage would be much more brilliant than my specimen, I have
no doubt, for the latter is inferior to the female, and the patched
character of the plumage indicates that a seasonal change was then
proceeding. If it has been described in its nuptial livery I have
failed to recognise it. The male, which was the first obtained, was
hopping about the mangroves, which are abundant at the marshy place
named, from the summits down to the very surface of the water; and
the female was one of a pair that were toying, and chasing each other
through the branches of the same trees. At this time, the ovary was
scarcely developed, the ova being distinguishable only with a lens. The
stomach, in each case, was filled with a black mass of insects.