10 WARBLER. 



to grey brown ; belly and under tail coverts brown ; a streak above 

 the eyes and round them, the throat and middle of the belly pure 

 white; tail somewhat cuneiform. 



Inhabits the Southern parts of Spain, among the bushes; several 

 specimens, obtained by Mr. Natterer, on the Brenta, during his stay 

 at Gibraltar. It is described as, having a more delicate and silky 

 plumage than either of the Nightingales, to both of which it seems to 

 have resemblance, but on comparison, will be found different; not 

 only from the size, but the shape of the wings ; and the tail being 

 graduated in a different manner, it approaches somewhat to the 

 Coryphee of Levaillant— our Choirister Warbler. 



4— PETTICHAPS. 



Sylvia hortensis, Lid. Om. ii. 507. Gm. Lin. i. 955. Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 111. Id. 



Ed.Yu p. 206. 

 Curruca, Bris. iii. 372. Id. 8vo. i. 414. 

 Ficedula cinerea major, Bigia, Gerin. iv. t. 395. 1. 

 Die Bastard Nachtigale, Naturf. xxvii. s. 39. 1. (Bechstein.*) 

 Broemsluiper, Sepp, Vog.'n. t. p. 139. 



La Fauvette, Buf. v. 117. pi. 7. PL enl. 579. 1. Hist.Prov.i. 506. 

 Lesser Fauvette, Bewick, pi. in p. 212 ? 

 Pettichaps, Gen. Syn. iv. 413. Id. Sup. ii. 234. Br. Zool. 1812. i. 506. Shaio^s ZooZ. 



x. 581. Lewin's Birds, iii. pi. 100. Walcot, ii. pi. 230. Om. Diet. $ Supp. 



LENGTH six inches ; breadth nearly nine ; weight five drachms. 

 The bill a trifle broader at the base than in the Common Whitethroat ; 

 tongue jagged at the tip ; irides dusky yellow ; plumage above light 

 brown, inclining to olive-green ; quills and tail margined with the 

 latter; below the ears ash-colour ; throat, neck, and upper part of 

 the breast dirty white, inclining to buff-colour; lower part of the 

 breast, belly, and under tail coverts white ; beneath the wings buff; 



* This gentleman has taken here some pains to discriminate this and five others of the 

 Wren kind, which had been, by the older writers, confounded with each other. 



