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DesersiP TION. 
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Fauna Suecica*, can {earcely be determined. I have in another 
place + given fome reafons for fuppofing it to be the Mot. Sylvia of 
Linneus; but whether I may have been right in that conjecture, or 
that it is the Mot. Curruca of that author, or diftinét from either, I 
leave others to determine. 
Sylvia locuftella, Jud. Orn. il. p. 515. 35. 
Ficedula peétore fufco, Geri. Qra. iv. t. 393.27 
Fauvette tachetée, P/. Enlum. 581. 3. - 
Grafshopper Warbler, Gez. Syn. iv. p. 429. 20. 
IZE of a Reed Wren; the weight three drams, fometimes more: 
length rather more than fix inches; expands feven inches and 
an half: the billis fender; the upper mandible dufky, the under 
whitifh, with a dufky tip: over the eye in the male is an indiftiné trace 
of buff colour: the upper parts of the plumage not unaptly refembles 
the Sedge Warbler ; but the tail differs, for it is cuneiform in a confi- 
fiderable degree, the two middle feathers being full two inches and an 
half long, and much pointed at the tips; the outer one only one inch 
and a quarter, and rounded at the ends, the intermediate ones de- 
creafing in fharpnefs, in proportion as they are more outward: the 
firft quill is fhorter than the fecond; the under parts of the body are 
plain dull white, inclining to dufky rufous on the breaft; over the 
thighs, the vent, and under tail coverts, dull white, with a dufky 
ftreak down the fhaft: the tail feathers viewed obliquely, appear to 
* N° 247 In this work, Linneus fays, ‘* extima (reétrice) margine interiore 
46 alba,”’—in the Sy/fema Nature, he writes, ‘¢ extima (rectrice) margine tenuiore 
« alba,’’ no doubt meaning that the margin of the zuwer web is white, Yet adds at 
the end of the defcription in the Fauna Suecica: <* Rectrices fufce, fed margine ex- 
« exteriore longitudinaliter alba,’? which is the cafe in our bird, at leaft the outer 
web is very pale, approaching to white. 
+ Supplem. p. 186. 
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