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dusky, margined with rusty ; tertials the same; the 
rest of the quills dusky; tail dusky; the outside 
feather on each side white, with a dark shaft; the 
two or three next feathers are slightly tipped with 
white; throat white; breast and belly white, tinged 
with peach colour; legs pale brown; toes and claws 
darker brown. 
A young bird of the year, shot in July, had the 
iris lightish grey; the ridge of the upper mandible 
darkish horn-colour; the rest of the beak pale grey; 
head and neck olive-brown, darkest on the top of the 
head ; rest of the upper parts tinged with grey; the 
white on the outside tail-feathers not so pure as in 
the adult; breast and flanks pale yellowish brown ; 
legs, toes and claws grey: all the rest as in the 
adult. 
The egg of the Whitethroat has a dirty white 
ground, with a distinct tinge of green in it, minutely 
speckled, particularly at the broader end, with dusky; 
but the eggs vary a good deal: sometimes (as in one 
of Hewitson’s plates) they are much blotched and 
smeared with a darker shade of green: they vary also 
in size. 
Lesser WuitETHROAT, Curruca sylviella. The 
Lesser Whitethroat is a much rarer bird than the 
last, and very seldom met with in these parts. 
I have one in my collection shot by myself here, 
and Mr. Haddon has one also, shot near Taunton. 
It is a summer visitor, arriving in and departing 
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