34 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



53. CURRUCA HORTENSIS (Gmelin). Garden Warbler. 



A common summer visitant, and generally distri- 

 buted both in gardens and plantations*. I can 

 generally find two or three pairs in each small plan- 

 tation in this and the adjoining parishes. Arrives 

 during the first week in May, leaving again in Sep- 

 tember. 



54. CURRUCA CINEREA (Latham). Common White- 



throat. 



Provincial. Peggy Whitethroat. 



A regular summer visitant, and everywhere com- 

 mon. Arrives usually during the fourth week in 

 April : earliest arrival noted April 22nd ; latest, May 

 2nd. Departs about the end of September or early in 

 October, some few individuals remaining even to the 

 end of that month. 



55. CURRUCA SYLVIELLA (Latham). Lesser White- 



throat. 

 A summer visitant, arriving and departing about 



* Colonel Montagu, writing of the Greater Pettychaps, says, 

 " In a tour across the kingdom, from the western to the eastern 

 coast, this bird frequently occurred between the eastern parts 

 of Somersetshire and Lincolnshire, and nowhere more abun- 

 dant than between Spalding and Boston, in the last-mentioned 

 county and, indeed, everywhere that shelter could be found, 

 even in the few hedges about the village of Wainfleet, and in 

 the thickets surrounding the decoys on the fens in that neigh- 

 bourhood." Dictionary of British Birds, p. 234. 



