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TURDID^. 



Sylvia curruca. Lesser Whitetheoat. 



Motacilla Curruca, Linn. S. N. i. p. 329 (1766). 



Sylvia curruca, Naum. ii. p. 451; Hewitson, p. 133; Gray, 

 p. 47 ; Newton, i. p. 410 ; Dresser, ii. p. 383 ; Gould, ii. 

 pi. 58. 



Sylvia garrula, Macg. ii. p. 357. 



Curruca sylviella, Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 320 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 339. 



Sylvia sylviella, Harting, p. 16. 



Lesser Whitettroat, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 293. 



Ctirruca, a late Latin word, perhaps from curro = I run. An English lexi- 

 cographer, Eliot, identified the name with the Hedge-Sparrow ; hence Leach's 

 name for that bird, Curruca eliotiB. 



A summer migrant to Great Britain and temperate Europe. 

 Winters in Africa. 



Sylvia orphea. Oephean Warbler. 

 Sylvia orphea, Temminck, Man. d^Orn. p. 107 (1815). 



Sylvia orphea, Naum. ii. p. 445 ; Hewitson, p. 133 ; Gray, 

 p. 50; Newton, i. p. 423; Harting, p. 106; Dresser, ii. 

 p. 411. 



Curruca orphea, Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 343; Gould, ii. pi. 61. 



Orphea = with a voice like Orpheus, the famous mythic singer of Thrace. 



An accidental visitor to England. Breeds throughout 

 Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor. 

 Winters in Africa. 



Sylvia atricapilla. Blackcap. 

 Motacilla Atricapilla, Linn. S. N. i. p. 332 (1766). 



Sylvia atricapilla, A'^aMm.ii.p.493; Mac^.ii.p.339; Gra«/,p.49; 



Newton, i. p. 418; Dresser, ii. p. 421; Harting, p. 15. 

 Sylvia atracapilla, Hewitson, p. 126. 

 Curruca atricapilla, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 307 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 326 ; 



Gould, ii. pi. 60. 

 Blackcap Warhler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 380. 

 Atricapilla, from dter = black, and cdpillus = the hair of the head. 



