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hat on, without violent efforts to avoid the displeasing object, by 
fluttering about in an extraordinary manner ; and in this way it 
lost its life.. 
We must also remark, that the monotonous song of the male 
was so incessant, and so shrill and piercing to the ear, that at 
times it became insufferable : it resembles so much the vociferous 
call-notes of the Lesser White-throat, Sylvia sylviella, that it re- 
quires more than ordinary knowledge in the language of birds not 
to be deceived. The female never uttered any thing but a sim- 
ple plaintive note. 
Dartford Warbler. 
Motacilla provincialis. Gmel. Syst. ii. p. 9-33. 
Sylvia Dartfordiensis. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 517 '. 
Dartford Warbler. Lath. Syn. iv. p. 437. 
Warbler, Dartford. Orn. Diction. 
In addition to the natural history of this bird, we beg leave 
to add, that we have observed it frequently in the southern parts 
of Devonshire since the 8th of September 1802, on which day 
several were seen ; and the young readily distinguished from the 
adults by their paler plumage, even at a distance. These at times 
presented themselves to our notice till the latter end of January 
in the present year. Two that were shot about this time proved, 
by dissection, to be of different sexes ; the plumage nearly alike, 
but rather darker in the male. In the gizzard were the elytra of 
some minute species of Coleopterous insects, and some small dark- 
coloured seeds. 
They affect situations similar to those which we observed them 
to frequent in Cornwall ; and no other place except in, or very 
contiguous to, thick furze, where they find the most secure 
shelter. They are not confined to one spot, but the most we ob- 
served were in a valley that opened to the sea, and not above 
two miles from it. In 
