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PASSEJiES. 



SYLVIIDJE. 



SYLVUDJi. 



SYLVIA CURRUCA (Linnaeus*). 



THE LESSER WHITETHROAT. 



Curruca sylviella\. 



THIS pretty Warbler was first discovered in this country 

 by Lightfoot, who, as already mentioned, first recognized the 

 Reed- Wren : he found it near Bulstrode in Buckingham- 

 shire and sent specimens to Latham, who, in 1787, gave a 

 description and bad figure of it in the ' Supplement ' to his 

 ' General Synopsis of Birds ' (i. p. 185, pi. cxiii.). This 

 Warbler visits many parts of England every year, commonly 

 arriving about the middle of April, but is said to have been 

 noticed in Cornwall as early as March, and it has been obtained 

 in this country so late as the second week of October. In 

 many of its habits it closely resembles the preceding species, 

 but is inferior to it as a songster. It frequents high and thick 



* Motacilla curruca, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 329 (1766). 

 t Sylvia sylvidla, Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 515 (1790). 



