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LESSER WHITETHROAT. 



Sylvia sylviella, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" dumetorum, LATHAM. 



" curruca, TEMMINCK. 



Motacilla curruca, LINNAEUS. 



" sylviella, BEWICK. 



" dumetorum, GMELIN. 



Curruca sylviella, FLEMING. 



" garrula> GOULD. 



Sylvia. Sylva A wood. Sylvidla A diminutive of Sylva. 



THE Rev. John Lightfoot was the first discoverer of this 

 as a British species, having met with it near Bulstrode, in 

 Buckinghamshire. 



On the continent this plain-plum aged hut beautiful little 

 bird is met with from south to north, as far as Sweden, from 

 Spain and Italy, but migratory in all. In Asia also it has 

 been noticed, in the East Indies. 



The Lesser Whitethroat is found throughout the southern 

 and eastern counties of England, and becomes more rare to the 

 westward and northward. In Yorkshire it is not an unusual 

 species in the neighbourhood of Thirsk, as Mr. Swarbreck 

 writes me word; also near Halifax, Doncaster, Huddersfield, 

 Hebden-Bridge, Sheffield, and York: near Bridlington it is 

 seldom seen, and then only in spring and autumn, and is 

 not known to breed there. In Cumberland one was shot by 

 Mr. J. Barnes, at Rose Hill, near Carlisle, in the summer of 

 1849. In Devonshire one was shot at Mutley, recorded by 

 R. A. Julian, Esq., Junior, in 'The Naturalist,' volume i, page 

 87; it occurs also in other parts. In Cornwall two were 

 seen near Budock Church, March 14th., 1848, as mentioned 

 by Mr. Cocks, page 63. In Cambridgeshire it is far from 

 uncommon. In Derbyshire it is common, and in Surrey is 

 extremely plentiful. It is found in Durham, Wiltshire, 



