General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Male. 
Female. 
Periodical 
visitant. 
Song. 
176 PASSERES. SYLVIA. GREATER 
Pirate 46. Fig. 2, A male bird of the natural size. 
Forehead, crown, and occiput black. Neck and breast 
grey. Upper parts of the body grey, tinged with oil- 
green. Belly and vent pale ash-grey. Legs and feet 
bluish-grey. Baill and irides brown. 
Fig. 3. The female, natural size. 
Crown of the head umber-brown. General tints of the 
plumage darker, and more inclining to oil-green than in 
the male bird. Exceeds the male in size. 
The young, upon quitting the nest, resemble the female in 
plumage. 
Greater Pettychaps.—Sylvia hortensis, Bechst. 
PLATE 46. Fig. 4. 
Sylvia hortensis, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 524. sp 4._Id. Tasschenb. 
Deut. p. 169.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 509. sp. 3. 
La petit Fauvette, Buff: Pl. Enl. 579. f. 2. 
Bec-fin Favette, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 206. 
Graue-Grasmuiicke, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 224. 
Braemsluiper, Sepp. Neder]. Vég. v. 2. t. p. 139. 
Greater Pettychaps, Mont. Ornith. Dict. and Supp. 
Fauvette Pettychaps, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 218. 
The Pettychaps appears to have been first described as a 
British species by Dr Latuam, who received his specimen 
from Lancashire. Since that period, (a greater degree of at- 
tention having been bestowed upon this department of Natu- 
ral History), it has been found in most parts of England, 
which it periodically visits; arriving with the other species of 
Warblers, in April and May, and departing early in Septem- 
ber. Mownracu informs us that he traced it throughout the 
greater part of England ; but he fixes the Tyne as its north- 
ernmost limit, in which boundary of its migraticn he is cer- 
tainly mistaken, as I have often seen it on the north of the 
River Tweed. 
The song of this species, although inferior in extent of 
scale, almost equals that of the nightingale in sweetness ; 
