PASSERINE. 281 
Of the above, we will merely notice the F :ysticole—F. cys- 
ticola, Tem. Col. 6, 3, with a fawn coloure. tack, 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 with the filaments of various seeds.(1) 
Among the species which prefer the higher grounds, we observe 
first, 
Mot. atricapilla, L.; Fauvette a téte noire, Enl. 580, 1 and 23 
Naum. 77, 2, 33 Roux, 205, bis. Brown above; whitish beneath; 
a black calotte on the male, a red one on the female. 
Mot. orphea, Tem.; La Fawvette, Enl. 579, 13; 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 selvage. 
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 srey; the largest 
of the European species. 
Mot. curruca, L.3 Brit. Zool. pl. v, No. 4; Frisch. 21; Naum. 
77, 13 Roux, 216. (The White Throat.) Smaller than the 
preceding ones, and the beak more slender, but the same white 
ona 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, 23 Riet-vink, Nosem. II, pl. 97; Enl. 579, 3; Roux, 220. 
’ Reddish 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 Fau- 
vette, Naum. 78, 3; Nosem. 723 Enl. 579, 2; Roux, 221. Has 
no genus which stands more in need of a monography and an approximation 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. ce/ti, Marmora or la Bouscarle, Enl. 6, 
55, 2; Roux, 212;—S. melanopogon, Tem. Col. 245, 2. 
(1) See Notizia sul nido del Beccamorchino (Sylvia cysticola, Tem.) by S- P. Savi. 
Pisa, 1823. 
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