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SYLVIA HOllTENSIS. THE GARDEN WARBLER 

 OR PETTYCHAPS. 



GREATER PETTYCHAPS. FAUVETTE. NETTLE-CREEPER. 

 BILLY WlllTETHROAT. GARDEN FAUVET. 



Sylvia hortensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 50". 



Bee-fin Fauvette. Sylvia hortensis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 20(!. 



Greater Pettychaps. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Greater Pettychaps. Curruca hortensis. Selb. Illustr. I. 211. 



Sylvia hortensis. Greater Pettychaps. Jen, Brit. Vert. An. 108. 



Upper parts light greyish-brown, tinged with olive, the wings 

 and tail dusky, the margins of the quills and coverts of the same 

 colour as the back, the lateral tail-feathers like the rest, the lower 

 parts greyish-white, the breast and sides tinged with brown. 



Male. — The Garden Warbler is almost of the same size as the 

 Black-capped Warbler, which it also closely resembles in form. 

 It is somewhat larger than the White-throated Warbler, to 

 which it is very similar in form and somewhat in colour. The 

 specific characters which I have given to these species however 

 will, I am confident, be found sufficient to enable the student to 

 distinguish them. The bill of the present species is rather short, 

 broader than high at the base, compressed towards the end, 

 acute ; the upper mandible with the dorsal outline nearly 



