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wing two inches eleven lines : breadth, wings extended, eight inches six 

 lines. 



DESCRIPT. All the upper parts cinereous brown, tinged with olive : 

 orbits white : below the ear on each side of the neck a patch of ash-gray : 

 throat whitish : breast and sides yellowish gray inclining to brown ; 

 belly, vent and under tail-coverts, nearly pure white: quills and tail 

 dusky, with pale edges : feet bluish gray. (Egg.) Greenish white 

 ground, speckled with two shades of ash-green : long. diam. nine lines ; 

 trans, diam. six lines and a half. 



Not uncommon in many parts of the country, making its first appear- 

 ance about the beginning of May. Frequents gardens, copses, and thick 

 hedges. Song resembling that of the Blackcap, but less powerful ; con- 

 tinued till the middle of July. Nest of flimsy structure ; formed of 

 the decayed stems of goose-grass, and other fibrous plants. Eggs four 

 or five in number, very like those of the last species. Obs. The Garden 

 Warbler and the Passerine Warbler of Bewick are probably both re- 

 ferable to the present species. Montagu, however, thought that the 

 Passerine Warbler of the author just mentioned was the same as the 



Reed Wren. 



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54. S. cinerea, Lath. (White-Throat.) Top of the 

 head cinereous; back and wing-coverts grayish brown 

 inclining to rufous: under parts white; the breast tinged 

 with rose-red : tail particoloured. 



S. cinerea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 207. White-Throat, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. r. p. 213. pi. 46. f. 7. Bew. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. i. p. 251. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches ten lines : length of the bill (from 

 the forehead) four lines and a half, (from the gape) seven lines; of the 

 tarsus nine lines and a half; of the tail two inches eight lines; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing two inches eight lines : breadth, wings 

 extended, eight inches seven lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Crown of the head, space between the eye and the 

 bill, cheeks, and ear-coverts, cinereous ; rest of the upper parts cinereous 

 brown, inclining to rufous on the back : quills dusky ; secondaries and 

 greater coverts broadly edged with brownish red : throat and middle of 

 the abdomen white; breast faintly tinged with rose-red; flanks and 

 thighs reddish gray : tail deep brown ; outer feather white, except at the 

 base of the inner web ; the next tipped with white : bill dusky above, 

 paler beneath: irides yellowish: legs yellowish brown. (Female and 

 young.) Upper parts more inclining to reddish brown ; breast white, 

 without the rosy tinge ; the outer tail-feather reddish, instead of white. 

 (Egg.) Greenish white ground, spotted and speckled with ash-colour and 

 two shades of ash-green : long. diam. nine lines ; trans, diam. six lines 

 and a half. 



Common in hedges and thickets throughout the kingdom. First seen 

 about the third week in April. Song often exerted on wing, accompanied 

 by peculiar jerks and gesticulations of the body. Nest similar to that of 

 the last species; placed in low bushes, where there is thick covert. Eggs 

 four or five in number. Young broods fledged about the end of May. 



55. S. Curruca, Lath. (Lesser White-Throat.) . 

 Crown of the head cinereous ; back and wing-coverts 



