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WHITE-THROAT. 



CURRUCA CINEREA, Bechst. 

 PLATE XLVI. FIG. 6. 



Sylvia cinerea, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 514. 



Motacilla Sylvia, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 330. Gmel Syst. 1. p. 956. 



Parus cinereus, Briss. 3. p. 549. 4. 



Becfin grisette, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 207. 



Fauvette grise, ou grisette, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 132 Id. PI. Enl. 579. f. 3. 



Fahle Grasmiieke, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 534 Meyer, Tasschenb. 

 Deut. v. 1. p. 225. 



Rietwink, Sepp. Nederl. Vog. v. 3. t. p. 97- 



White-Throat, Br. Zool. 1. No. 160 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 422 White, Hist. 



Selb. p. 103 Lath. Syn. 4. 19. p. 428 Mont. Ornith. Diet Bewick's 



Br. Birds, v. 1 Lewies Br. Birds, 3. t. 104 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 9. 



PROVINCIAL Nettle-Creeper, Muggy-Cut-Throat. 



THIS species is much more numerous, and more equally Periodical 

 diffused throughout Britain, than either of the foregoing. It visitant 

 is, like most of the genus, a regular visitant to our shores 

 during the summer, arriving at the same time with those al- 

 ready described, and preparing for its equatorial migration 

 about the latter part of September. 



It inhabits hedges and thickets ; and possesses a pleasing 

 but cursory song, frequently uttered upon the wing, as it 

 rises from the spray on which it had been perched, to a con- 

 siderable height in the air, and descends slowly to the same 

 spot from whence it had taken its departure. In executing 

 this movement, its flight is very peculiar, and must have at- 

 tracted the attention of all persons interested in ornithologi- 

 cal pursuits. When singing, the feathers upon the crown of 

 the head are erected, and the throat suffers considerable in- 

 flation. It builds amongst brambles, nettles, or other tall 

 weeds. The nest is of frail and open texture, composed of 

 the withered stems of the Galium aparine, sometimes having 

 a few hairs intermixed with them. The eggs are four or five 

 in number, of a greyish-white, speckled with wood-brown and 



