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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIAD^E. 





SYLVIA D^E. 



THE COMMON WHITETHROAT. 



Curruca cinerea. 



Sylvia Cinerea, Whitetfiroat Warbler, PENN. 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, SEL BY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 213. 



Sylvia JBNYNS, Brit, Vert. p. 109. 



Curruca Common Whitethroat, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 



Sylvia Bee-Jin Grisette, 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 annually 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 



