600 BOURBON WARBLER. 



with a few hairs that scarcely serve the purpose 

 of a lining : the eggs are four or five in number, 

 of a blueish white, sprinkled at the larger end 

 with brown and ash-colour ; but occasionally the 

 egg is nearly covered with spots. 



It does not appear to be plentiful in this coun- 

 try : in the eastern parts, as about the fens of 

 Lincolnshire, it is most abundant: in the north of 

 Wiltshire it is not uncommon, where it generally 

 arrives in the latter end of April : it may be easily 

 discovered by its shrill note, which is hardly worth 

 being called a song ; which, however, it so mo- 

 dulates occasionally as to be very pleasing when 

 close : it generally resides in the thickest bushes : 

 it has never been seen as far west as Devonshire, 

 or farther north than Lincolnshire : Dr. Latham 

 says he received this species from Sweden, by the 

 name of Motacilla Curruca. 



BOURBON WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Borbonica. ) 



SY. griseofusca, subtus Jlamcante sordide grisea, remigibus rec- 



tricibusquefuscis, margine griseo fastis. 

 Grey-brown Warbler, beneath dirty yellowish grey ; the quills 



and tail brown, edged with grey-brown. 

 Sylvia Borbonica. Lath. 2nd. Orn. 2. 533. 95. 

 Motacilla Borbonica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 081, 



