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Of the above, we will merely notice the F. cysticole F. cys- 

 ticola, Tern. Col. 6, 3, with a fawn coloured back, spotted with 

 black, a light fawn colour beneath; the tail cuneiform, each 

 feather of which has a black spot on its inferior surface. This 

 species is from the south of Europe, and makes its nest by 

 approximating- the leaves of a tuft of grass or carex, which it 

 sews together with the filaments of various seeds.(l) 

 Among the species which prefer the higher grounds, we observe 



first, 



Alot. atricapilla, L.; Fauvette a tete noire, Enl. 580, 1 and 2; 

 Naum. 77, 2, 3j Roux, 205, bis. Brown above; whitish beneath; 

 a black calotte on the male, a red one on the female. 



Mot. orphea, Ttm.; La Fauvette, Enl. 579, 1; Naum. 76, 3, 

 4; S. grisea, Roux, 213. One of the largest; ashy brown above, 

 whitish beneath; some white on the tip of the wing; two-thirds 

 of the external quills of the tail white, the succeeding one 

 marked with a spot at the end, and the rest with a selvage. 

 There have been distinguished within the last few years, 



Sylvia nisoria, Bechst, ; Fauvette i^ayee; 'Na.um. 76, 1, 2, Roux, 

 222. Which has much less white on the tail, the abdomen of 

 the female being transversely undulated with grey; the largest 

 of the European species. 



Mot. curritca, L.; Brit. Zool. pi. v. No. 4;Frisch. 21; Naum. 

 77, 1; Roux, 216, (The White Throat.) Smaller than the 

 preceding ones, and the beak more slender, but the same white 

 on a great part of the first quill of the tail. The head is ash 

 coloured, back brownish. 



3Iot. sylvia, Gm.; S. cinerea; Fauvette roussdtre; Naum. 78, 

 I, 2; Biet-vink, Nosem. II, pi. 97; Enl. 579, 3; Roux, 220. 

 Reddish brown-grey above, white beneath; the white on the 

 tail as in the two preceding ones; the quills and coverts of the 

 wings edged with red. 



Mot. salicaria, L.; Sylv. hortensis, Bechst.; La petite Fau- 

 vette, Naum. 78, 3; Nosem. 72; Enl. 579, 2; Roux, 221. Has 



no genus which stands more in need of a raonography and an approximation of the 

 synonymes of different authors, than this. 



Add to the aquatic Fauvettes of Europe, Sylv. galadodes, T. Col. 251, 1; S. 

 luscinioides, Savi. Egypt. Ois. XIII, A; S. cetti, Marmora or la Bouscarle, Enl. 6, 

 55, 2; Roux, 212; S. melanopogon, Tem. Col. 245, 2. 



(1) See Notizia sulnido del Beccamorchino {Sylvia cysticola, Tern.) by S. P. Savi, 

 Pisa, 1823. 



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