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he refers to its occurrence in only two counties, 

 Cork and Tipperary. Mr. Blake Knox, however, 

 has met with it in the county of Dublin ; I have 

 seen it in Wicklow ; and the late Sir Victor 

 Brooke informed me that in the co. Fermanagh, 

 about Lough Erne, it is common in summer, and 

 nests regularly in the neighbourhood of Castle 

 Caldwell, to the north-west of that county. 



This is the pettychaps, heccafigo, and fig-eater of 

 Willughby and Ray {Oiii., pp. 216, 227). Jesse was 

 assured by a resident at Worthing, " that the hecca- 

 Jlco annually visits the fig-orchard near that place," 

 and he supposed (erroneously) that it was found in no 

 other part of England ("Gleanings," iii. p. 78). In 

 Italy the name heccafico is applied to other small birds; 

 for example, near Florence, to the Sedge Warbler. 



AVHITETHROAT. Sylvia cinerea, Latham. PI. 8, fig. 4. 

 Length, 5*5 in. ; wing, 2'75 in. ; tarsus, '8 in. 



A summer migrant ; generally distributed, but 

 scarce in the north of Scotland. One of the best 

 accounts of this bird ever published was contributed 

 by the late Edward Blyth to Rennie's Field Natu- 

 7'alist, vol. i., 1833, p. 316. For an instance of a 

 Whitethroat nesting at the unusual height of twelve 

 feet above the ground, see ZooL, 1875, p. 4298. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT. Sylvia curruca (Linnseus). 

 PI. 8, fig. 5. Length, 5'25 in. ; wing, 2*5 ; tarsus, '7 in. 



A summer migrant to England. Especially 

 common in the south, where it is known as the 



