DAULIAS. SYLVIA. 11 



Genus DAULIAS, F. Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542. 



DauUas = AavXias, a woman of Daulis, a town in Thrace, where Philomela, 

 wife of Tereus, was, according to the myth, turned into a Nightingale. Used 

 absolutely of a Nightingale by Catullus, 65. 14. 



Daulias luscinia. Nightingale. 



Motacilla Luscinia, Linn. S. N. i. p. 328 (1766) . 



Sylvia luscinia, Naum. ii. p. 373. 



Philomela luscinia, Macg. ii. p. 321 ; Hewitson, i. p. 124 ; 



Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 300; id. ed. 3, i. p. 318. 

 Luscinia philomela. Gray, p. 45 ; Gould, ii. pi. 56 ; Harting, 



p. 15. 

 Daulias luscinia, Newton, i. p. 312 ; Dresser, ii. p. 363. 



Luscmm = a Nightingale, in classical Latin ; perhaps from the root of XdXos 

 = talkative, and of cano = I sing ; cf . lessus = a dirge. 



A regular summer migrant, breeding in England south of 

 Yorkshire and east of Devonshire, and in Central and 

 Southern Europe. Winters in Africa. 



Subfamily SylviinjE. 

 Genus SYLVIA, Scopoli, Ann. 1. Hist. Nat. p. 154 (1769). 



Sylma — the woodland bird, from silva = a wood. 



Sylvia cinerea. Whitethkoat. 



Motacilla Sylvia, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 330(1766). 



Sylvia cinerea, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 1 70 



(1802). 



Sylvia cinerea, Naum. ii. p. 464 ; Macg. ii. p. 350 ; Hewitson, 



p. 130, Gray, p. 48 ; Gould, ii. pi. 57 ; Harting, p. 16. 

 Curruca cinerea, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 316; id. ed. 3, i. p. 335. 

 Sylvia rufa, Newton, i. p. 406 ; Dresser, ii. p. 377. 

 Common Whitethroat, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 289. 



Cinerea = of the colour of ashes, cmeres. 



A common summer visitor to the British Islands, tem- 

 perate Europe, and Persia. Winters in Africa. 



