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grey above; very pale yellow beneath; a yellowish streak between 
the eye and the bill. 
There are also several small Spotted Fauvettes, inhabiting marshes, 
&c., which were long confounded under that general name, (Mot. 
nevia, Gm.) and which are not yet satisfactorily distinguished*. 
Of the above, we will merely notice the F. cysticole—(/’. cysticola, 
Tem.) Col. 6, 3, with a fawn-coloured back, spotted with black, a 
light fawn colour beneath; the tail cuneiform, each feather of which 
has a black spot on its inferior surface. ‘This species is from the 
south of Europe, and makes its nest by approximating the leaves of 
a tuft of grass or carex, which it sews together by means of the fila- 
ments of various seeds +. 
Among the species which prefer the dry grounds, we observe first, 
Mot. atricapilla, L.; Fauvette a téte noire, Enl. 580, 1 and 2; 
Naum. 77, 2,3; Roux, 205, bis. Brown above; whitish beneath; 
a black calotte on the male, a red one on the female. 
Mot. orphea, Tem.; La Fauvetie, Enl. 579, 1; Naum. 76, 3, 4; 
S. grisea, Roux, 213. One of the largest; ashy brown above, 
whitish beneath; some white on the tip of the wing; two-thirds of 
the external quills of the tail white, the succeeding one marked with 
a spot at the end, and the rest with a selvege. There have been 
distinguished within the last few years, 
Sylvia nisoria, Bechst.; Fauvette rayée, Naum. 76, 1,2; Roux, 
222. Which has much less white on the tail, the abdomen of the 
female being transversely undulated with grey; the largest of the 
European species. 
Mot. curruca, L.; Brit. Zool. pl. v. No.4; Frisch. 21; Naum. 
77,1; Roux, 216. (The White Throat of the English). Smaller 
than the preceding ones, and the bill more slender, but the same white 
on a great part of the first quill of the tail. The head is ash coloured, 
back brownish. 
Mot. sylvia, Gm.; S. cinerea; Fauvette roussdtre, Naum. 78, 1, 
2; Riet-vink, Nosem. II, pl. 97; Enl. 579, 3; Roux, 220. Red- 
dish brown-grey above, white beneath; the white on the tail as in 
the two preceding ones; the quills and coverts of the wings edged 
with red. 
Mot. salicaria, L.; Sylv. hortensis, Bechst.; La petite Fauvette, 
Naum. 78, 3; Nosem. 72; Enl. 579, 2; Roux, 221. Has no 
* See the S. phragmitis, Naum. 82, 1;—S. cariceti, Id. 2, 3;—S. aquatica, Id. 4 
and 5;—S. fluviatilis, Id. 83, 1;—S. locustella, Id. 84, 2, 3. . Compare them with the 
S. locustella, Roux, 229;—S. Schenobenus, Id. 230;—S. paludicola, Id. 231;—S. 
cysticola, Id. 232; as well as the figures of Buff., Brisson, Bechstein, &c. There is 
no genus. among Birds which stands more in need of a monography and an approxi- 
mation of the synonymes of different authors, than this. 
Add to the aquatic Fauvettes of Europe, Sylv. galactodes, T. Col. 251, 1;—S. 
luscinioides, Savi. Egypt. Ois. XIII, A;—S. cetti, Marmora or la Bouscarle, Enl. 6, 
55, 2; Roux, 212;—S. melanopogon, Tem. Col. 245, 2. 
+ See Notizxia sul nido del Beccamorchino (Sylvia cysticola, Tem.) by M. Paul Savi. 
Pisa, 1823. 
