SYLVIADJ2. 



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Aloe breves, penna spuria ; 

 remex prima quinta bre- 

 vior, tertia longissima. 



Wings short, with a spurious 

 feather ; the first quill 

 shorter than the fifth, the 

 third longest. 



Sp. 1. Pr. Schoenobanus. 



Sylvia Schoenobanus. Steph. v. x. p. 533. — Europe. 

 Sp. 2. Pr? palustris. 

 Pr ? viridescente-olivaceo-Jusca, alis Juscis cinereo marginatis ; 



lined fiavo-albd supra oculos. 

 Greenish-olive-brown Prunella, with the wings brown, margined 



with cinereous ; a yellowish-white stripe above the eye. 

 Sylvia palustris. Temm. Man. d'Om. 2 Edit. i. 192. Marsh 



Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hut. v. vii. p. 19. 



Inhabits Switzerland and Germany. Length five 

 inches : beak broad at the base, and rather flattened ; 

 under mandible yellowish : plumage above greenish- 

 olive-brown : wings brown, edged with ash -colour : 

 from the base of the beak over the eye, a narrow yel- 

 lowish white stripe : the under parts as in the fore- 

 going bird. This species lays four or five light ash- 

 coloured eggs, with deeper and paler spots of bluish- 

 ash. 



GENUS C.— CURRUCA, Beckstein. WHITETHROAT. 



Rostrum rectum, gracile, ver- 

 sus apicem compressum : 

 mandibula superior apice 

 curvata. 



Beak straight, slender, com- 

 pressed towards the tip; 

 the upper mandible with 

 the tip curved. 



This genus contains several plain coloured but 

 elegantly formed birds, many of which are endowed 

 with the most surprising powers of voice : they are 



