12 TURDIDjE. 



Sylvia Clirruca. LESSER WHITETHROAT. 

 Motacilla Curruca, Linn. S. N. i. p. 329 (1766). 

 Sylvia curruca, Naum. ii. p. 451; Hewitson, p. 132; Gray, 

 p. 47 ; Newton, i. p. 410 ; Dresser, ii. p. 383 ; Gould, ii. 

 pi. 58. 



Sylvia garrula, Macg. ii. p. 357. 



Curruca sylviella, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 320 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 339. 

 Sylvia sylviella, Harting, p. 16. 

 Lesser Whitethroat, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 293. 



Curruca, a late Latin word, perhaps from curro = I run. An English lexi- 

 cographer, Eliot, identified the name with the Hedge-Sparrow; hence Leach's 

 name for that bird, Curruca eliotce. 



A summer migrant to Great Britain and temperate Europe. 

 Winters in Africa. 



Sylvia orphea. ORPHEAN WARBLER. 

 Sylvia orphea, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 107 (1815). 

 Sylvia orphea, Naum. ii. p. 445 ; Hewitson, p. 133 ; Gray, 

 p. 50 ; Newton, i. p. 423 ; Harting, p. 106 ; Dresser, ii. 

 p. 411. 

 Curruca orphea, Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 343; Gould, ii. pi. 61. 



Orphea = with a voice like Orpheus, the famous mythic singer of Thrace. 



An accidental visitor to England. Breeds throughout 

 Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor. 

 Winters in Africa. 



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Sylvia atricapilla, BLACKCAP. 



Motacilla Atricapilla, Linn. S. N. i. p. 332 (1766). 



Sylvia atricapilla, Naum.ii. p. 492; Macg. ii. p. 339-, Gray,pA9-, 



Newton, i. p. 418; Dresser, ii. p. 421; Harting, p. 15. 

 Sylvia atracapilla, Hewitson, p. 126. 

 Curruca atricapilla, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 307 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 326 ; 



Gould, ii. pi. 60. 

 Blackcap Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 280. 



Atricapilla, from dter = black, and cdpillus the hair of the head,. 



