WARBLER. 47 



39— STOPAROLA WARBLER. 



Motacilla Sylvia, Lin. i. 330. 9. Faun. suec. No. 250. Gm. Lin. i. 950, Brun. No. 



275 ? Muller, 269. Faun. arag. 83. 5. Borowsk. iii. 188 ? 

 Curruca cinerea, Bris. iii. 370. t. 21. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 415. Buf. v. 409. iii. 

 Stoparola, Aldrov. Op. ii. 732. 



SIZE scarcely larger than the Willow Wren. Head, neck, and 

 all the upper parts cinereous ; the under white ; quills cinereous 

 brown; tail the same, the exterior feather white, on the outer web, the 

 whole length, the second white at the tip; the breast of one colour. 



Inhabits woods and groves, and called in Sweden Skogsknetter, 

 Mesar; Brisson, whom Linnaeus quotes as a synonym, says, it is five 

 inches seven lines long, the ten middle tail feathers brown, margined 

 all round with grey, the exterior pale cinereous, the outer web and 

 tip white. We can scarcely think it distinct from the White Throat. 



40— LESSER WHITE-THROAT WARBLER.— Pl. cv. 



Sylvia Sylviella, hid. Orn. ii. 515. 



Motacilla longirostra, Naturf. xxvii. s. 43. 2.— Bechstein. 



Lesser White-Throat, Gen. Syn. Sup. 185. pl. 113.— bird, nest, and eggs. Id. Sup. 



ii. 239. Shaiv's Zool. x. 599. Donov. iv. pl. 86. Orn. Diet. Br. Zool. Ed. 



1812. i. p. 529. 



SIZE and shape of the Yellow Wren ; length scarcely five inches. 

 Bill half an inch long, slender, dusky, base of the under mandible 

 yellow ; irides dark ; plumage on the upper parts pale cinereous 

 brown, darker on the crown ; under parts from chin to vent dusky 

 white ; tail two inches long, the same in colour as the upper parts, 

 except the outer feather, which is paler on the outer web, the two 

 middle ones are shorter than the others, giving a forked appearance 

 when spread ; the wings reach to about one-third ; legs deep brown. 



Male and female much alike. 



