COMMON WHITETHROAT. 335 



DBNT1ROSTRBS. 





THE COMMON WHITETHROAT. 



Curruca cinerea. 



Sylvia Cinerea, Whitethroat Warbler, PEKS. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 528. 

 Motacilla sylvia MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



Curruca FLEM. Brit. An. p. 71. 



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



Sylvia JEXYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 109. 



Curruca Common IVhitethroat, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 Sylria Bee-fin Grweite, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 207. 



THE COMMON WHITETHROAT is probably more numerous 

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

 other of those summer warblers which annnually 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 

 overgrown with low brambles, nettles, and other wild 



