COMMON ^VHITETHROAT. 



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INSESSORE.S. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIABM. 



THE COMMON WHITETHROAT. 



Sylvia cinerea, Whitethroat Warbler, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 528. 



Motacilla sylvia, „ Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 260. 



Ciirruca ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 71. 



,, cinerea, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 213. 



Sylvia ,, ,, J en yns, Brit. Vert. p. 109. 



Curruca ,, Common Whitethroat, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 



Sylvia ,, Bee-fin Grisette, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 207. 



The Common Whitethroat is probably more nu- 

 merous as a species, and more generally diffused here, than 

 any other of those summer warblers which annually visit this 

 country. It makes its appearance about the third week in 

 April, and frequents the sides of great woods, thickets, 

 hedge-rows with broad banks, and grassy lanes partially over- 



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