82 WARBLER. 



It builds on the ground, and is often seen sitting on the tops of 

 plants ; migrates in autumn, and called by the Italians, Grisato. It 

 seems to correspond with the Bog-rush Warbler, but the circumstance 

 of its migrating, seems to give reason for supposing it a different bird. 



70— BABBLING WARBLER. 



Sylvia Curruca, Ind. Orn. ii. 509. 



Motacilla Curruca, Lin. i. 329. Faun. suec. No. 247. Scop. i. No. 22S. Muller, No. 



267. Faun. arag. p. 88. Frisch, t. 21. 5oron-jA-.iii.lS7. Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 



114. Id. Ed.n. 209. 

 Ficedula cannabina, Gerin. iv. t. 392. 1. 

 Curruca garrula, Bris. iii. 384. Id. Svo. i. 417. Klein, 73. 2. 3. Id. Stem. 13. 1. 16. 



f. 3— a. b. Id. Ov. 24. 1. 10. f. 6. Will. p. 99 ? iv. t. 23. 

 Graas-Mucken, Gunth. Nest.u. Ey.Gl. 1. 15. Naturf.xv'n. 100. No. 205. 

 La Fauvette babillarde, Buf. v. 135. PI. enl. 5S0. 3. 

 Beccafico canapino, Olin. t. p. 11. 2. 

 Cannevarola, Zinnan. Uov. 57. t. 8. f. 46. 

 Babbling Warbler. Gen. Syn. iv. 417. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 442. U. Shaw's Zool. x. 5S0. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill blackish ; crown of the head cine- 

 reous ; the rest of the upper parts the same, with a tinge of brown ; 

 beneath the eye a streak of deep ash-colour ; the under parts, and 

 edge of the wing rufous white ; the quills brown, edged within with 

 white, and outwardly with rufous grey, but the greater ones with 

 ash-colour; tail brown, edged with grey, the outer feather with the 

 exterior web and tip white, on the interior bordered with white ; the 

 middle feather the shortest, making the tail somewhat forked ; legs 

 brown. 



Inhabits France and Italy, frequenting the hedges, and building 

 therein; the nest placed not far from the ground, the eggs greenish, 

 dotted with brown;* it is said to feed principally on caterpillars. 

 Scopoli observes, that it is a restless, noisy bird, imitating the notes 



* Ash-coloured, spotted with ferruginous. — Faun. suec. 



