Periodical 
visitant. 
Song. 
Nest, &c. 
178 PASSERES. SYLVIA. Waite THroat. 
x White Throat.—Sylvia cinerea, Lath. 
PLATE 46. Fig. 6. 
Sylvia cinerea, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 514. 
Motacilla Sylvia, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 330.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 956. 
Parus cinereus, Briss. 3. p. 549. 4. 
Bec.fin grisette, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 207. 
Fauvette grise, ou grisette, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 132.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 579. f 3. 
Fahle Grasmiicke, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 534.—Meyer, 'Tasschenb. 
Deut. v. 1. p. 225. 
Rietwink, Sepp. Nederl. Vég. v. 3. t. p. 97. 
White Throat, Br. Zool. 1. No. 160.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 422.—White, Hist. 
Selb. p. 103.—Lath. Syn. 4.19. p. 428.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Bewick’s 
Br. Birds, v. 1.—LZewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 104.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 9- 
Provincial, Nettle-Creeper, Muggy-Cut-Throat. 
This species is much more numerous, and more equally 
diffused throughout Britain than either of the foregoing. It 
is, like most of the genus, a regular visitant to our shores 
during the summer, arriving at the same time with those al- 
ready described, and preparing for its equatorial migration 
about the latter part of September. 
-It inhabits hedges and thickets ; and possesses a pleasing 
but cursory song, frequently uttered upon the wing, as it 
rises from the spray on which it had been perched, to a con- 
siderable height in the air, and descends slowly to the same 
spot from whence it had taken its departure. In executing 
this movement, its flight 1s very peculiar, and must have at- 
tracted the attention of all persons interested in ornithologi- 
cal pursuits. When singing, the feathers upon the crown of 
the head are erected, and the throat suffers considerable infla- 
tion. —It builds amongst brambles, nettles, or other tall 
weeds. The nest is of frail and open texture, composed of 
the withered stems of the Galium aparine, sometimes having 
a few hairs intermixed with them. The eggs are four or five 
in number, of a greyish-white, speckled with wood-brown and 
grey. The young often leave the nest before they are well 
able to fly, particularly if they happen to be disturbed. 
