White-Thboat. INSESSORES. CURRUCA. 215 



LESSER WHITE-THROAT. 



CuRRUCA Garrula, JBriss, 



PLATE C. Fig. 4. 



Curruca GaiTula, Briss. Orn. 3. 384. 7- 

 Curruca sylviella, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 70* No. 67. 

 Motacilla'Curruca, Linn. Syst. 1. 329. 6. — Gmel. Syst. 1. 954. 



Sylvia Curruca, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 509. sp. 9 Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. 209. 



Sylvia Dumetorum, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 522. 45. 



Motacilla Dumetorum, Lrnn. Syst. 1. 334. 31 Gmel. Syst. 1. 985. 



Sylvia Svlviella, Lnth. Ind. O. u. 2. 545. sp. 24 Mont. Orn. Diet. Supp. 



La Fauvette Babillard, Buff. Ois. 5. 135 Id. PI. Enl. 580. f. 3. 



Becfin Babillard, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. 209. 

 Klapper Grasmiicke, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 226. 



Babbling Warbler, Arct. Zool. 2. 422. U Lath Syn. 4. 417. 6. 



White-breasted Warbler, Lath. Svn. 4. 447. 41. 



Lesser White-Throat, Lath. Syn. Sup. 185. t. 113 — Do7i. Br. Birds, 4. t. 



86 — Mont. Orn. Diet, and Sup Shaw's Zool 10.509 — Flem. Br. Anim, 



1. 71. No. 67 — Bewick's Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 253. 

 Babillard, Rennie's Mont. Orn. Diet. 15. witla a figure of the nest and eggs. 



As no opportunity of examining this pretty little Warbler 

 had been afforded me, previous to the publication of the first 

 edition of these Illustrations, I was obliged to limit ray no- 

 tice of it, as a British species, to a cursory note ; as I could 

 not, without a personal inspection, reconcile the synonyms 

 of the various authors who have adverted to it. The kind 

 attentions of my ornithological friends, have since then fur- Periodical 

 nished me with specimens from different parts of the king-^^®^ 

 dom, by which I am now enabled to give a more detailed 

 description, as well as a figure of the bird, upon one of the 

 supplementary plates. — Its retired habits, and the impatience 

 of observation which it so constantly exhibits, in always en- 

 sconcing itself amidst the thickest entanglements of hedges 

 or underwood, contributed, for a long time, to keep it out of 

 view, and cause it to be regarded as a species of great rarity, 

 and of very local distribution. The interest, however, ex- 

 cited of late years, by the keen pursuit of this branch of 

 Natural History, has led to a much closer search after the 

 respective species, and it is now satisfactorily ascertained, 



