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grey above; very pale yellow beneath; a yellowish streak between 

 the eye and the bill. 



There are also several small Spotted Fauvettes, inhabiting marshes, 

 &c., which were long confounded under that general name, (Mot,, 

 ncevia, Gm.) and which are not yet satisfactorily distinguished*. 



Of the above, we will merely notice the F. cysticole — {F. cysticola. 

 Tern.) Col. 6, 3, with a fawn-coloured back, spotted with black, a 

 light fawn colour beneath ; the tail cuneiform, each feather of which 

 has a black spot on its inferior surface. This species is from the 

 south of Europe, and makes its nest by approximating the leaves of 

 a tuft of grass or carex, which it sews together by means of the fila- 

 ments of various seeds -f-= 



Among the species which prefer the dry grounds, we observe first, 



Mot. atricapilla, L. ; Fauvette a tete noire, Enl. 580, 1 and 2; 

 Naum. 77, 2, 3; Roux, 205, bis. Brown above; whitish beneath; 

 a black calotte on the male, a red one on the female. 



Mot. orphea, Tem. ; La Fauvette, Enl. 579, 1 ; Naum. 76, 3, 4; 

 S. grisea, Roux, 213. One of the largest; ashy brown above, 

 whitish beneath ; some white on the tip of the wing ; two-thirds of 

 the external quills of the tail white, the succeeding one marked with 

 a spot at the end, and the rest with a selvege. There have been 

 distinguished within the last few years, 



Sylvia nisoria, Bechst. ; Fauvette rayee, Naum. 76, 1,2; Roux, 

 222. Which has much less white on the tail, the abdomen of the 

 female being transversely undulated with grey ; the largest of the 

 European species. 



Mot. curruca, L. ; Brit. Zool. pi. v. No. 4; Frisch. 21; Naum. 

 77, 1 ; Roux, 216. (The White Throat of the EngUsh). Smaller 

 than the preceding ones, and the bill more slender, but the same white 

 on a great part of the first quill of the tail. The head is ash coloured, 

 back brownish. 



Mot. Sylvia, Gm. ; S. cinerea; Fauvette roussutre, Naum. 78, 1, 

 2; Riet-vinh, Nosem. II, pi. 97; Enl. 579, 3; Roux, 220. Red- 

 dish brown-grey above, white beneath ; the white on the tail as in 

 the two preceding ones ; the quills and coverts of the wings edged 

 with red. 



Mot. salicaria, L. ; Sylv. hortensis, Bechst. ; La petite Fauvette, 

 Naum. 78,3; Nosem. 72; Enl. 579,2; Roux, 221. Has no 



* See the S. phragmitis, Naum. 82, 1; — S. cariceli, Id. 2, 3; — S. aqualica, Id. 4 

 and 5 \—S.fluviaUlis, Id. 83, 1 ■,—S. locustella, Id. 84, 2, 3. Compare them with the 

 S. locustella, Roux, 229;— S. Schceiwhenus, Id. 230;—.?. paludicola, Id. 231;— 5. 

 cysticola, Id. 232 ; as well as the figures of BufF., Brisson, Bechstein, &c. There is 

 no genus among Birds which stands more in need of a monography and an approxi- 

 mation of the synonymes of different authors, than this. 



Add to the aquatic Fauvettes of Europe, Si/lr. galactodes, T. Col. 251, 1; — S. 

 luscinioides, Savi. Egypt. Ois. XIII, A; — .S'. ceitl, Marmora or la Bouscarle, Enl. 6, 

 55, 2; Roux, 212; — .S'. melanopogon, Tem. Col. 245, 2. 



t See Notizia siil nido del Beccamorchino {Sylvia cysticola, Tem.) by M. Paul Savi. 

 Pisa, 1823. 



