580 



BABBLING WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Curruca.) 



SY. suprajfusca, subtus albida, rectricibusfuscis, extima marginc 



tenuiori alba. 

 Warbler above brown, beneath whitish, with the tail-feathers 



brown, the outer one with the inner margin white. 

 Sylvia Curruca. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 50Q. 9. 

 Motacilla Curruca. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 329. 6. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



247.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 954. 

 Curruca garrula. Briss. Orn. 3. 384. 7. 

 Fauvette babillarde. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 135. Buff. PL 



Enl. 580.f. 3. 



Kruka. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 422. u. 

 Babbling Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 417. 6. 



THIS is a very noisy and restless bird: it is 

 abundant in gardens in Pisa, where the natives 

 call it Bianchetto : it is likewise abundant in other 

 parts of Italy and France : its eggs are said by 

 some to be greenish, with brown spots ; but by 

 Linneus they are described as cinereous, sprinkled 

 with ferruginous : its food consists of insects and 

 their larvae. The bird is five inches in length : 

 its beak is dusky : the crown of its head is grey: 

 beneath the eye is a stripe of deep cinereous: the 

 upper parts of the neck and body resemble the 

 crown, but incline to brown: the quills are brown, 

 margined with white on their inner edges, and 

 with reddish grey on their outer : the primaries 

 are edged with cinereous : the under parts of the 

 body, and edge of the wing, are reddish white : 



