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WHITE-THROATED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia cinerea.) 



SY. supra cinerea, subtus alba, rectrice prima longitudinaliter di- 



midiato alba, secunda apice alba. 



Warbler above cinereous, beneath white, with the outer tail- 

 feather longitudinally half white, the next tipped with white. 

 Sylvia cinerea. Lath. Jnd. Orn. 2. 514. 23. 

 Motacilla Sylvia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 330. 9. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



250.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 956. 

 Parus cinereus. Briss. Orn. 3. 549 . 4. 

 Mesange cendree. Ruff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 4QQ. 3. 

 jS. supra rufo-cinerea, subtus rufo alba t gula alba. 

 Above of a reddish ash, beneath reddish white, with the throat 



white. 



Curruca cinerea sive cineraria. Briss. Orn. 3. 376.pl. 21. f. 1. 

 Fauvette grise, ou la Grissette. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 132. 



Buff. PI. Enl. 579. f. 3. 

 Le Bouscarle de Provence. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 134.? 



Buff. PI. Enl. 655. f. 2.1 

 White-throat. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. l6o. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 



422. s.Will. Ang. 210. Albin. Birds. 3. pi. 58. Lenin. 



Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 104. White. Hist. Selb. 103. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 4. 428. 19. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 21Q. Mont. Orn. 



Diet. 2. 



THE White-throat weighs about four drams* 

 and is in length five inches and three quarters: 

 its beak is dusky brown above, whitish beneath : 

 irides yellowish : the whole of the upper parts 

 cinereous brown, the wing-coverts darkest, edged 

 with brown, and tinged with rufous : quills dusky, 

 slightly edged with grey-brown : under parts of 

 the plumage grey-brown, the thighs and breast 



