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of others, and frequently seen in the gardens at Pisa, in the summer, 

 where it is called Bianchetto. 



One greatly similar to this, if not the same, is among the drawings 

 of General Hardwicke, and inhabits India. 



71.— WHITE-BREASTED WARBLER. 



Sylvia Dumetorum, Ind. Orn. ii. 522. 



Motacilla Dumetorum, Lin. i. 334. Gm. Lin. i. 985, Kramer, 377. 19. 



Curruca tertia, Gesn. av. 327. 



White-breasted Warbler, Gen. Si/n. iv. 447. Shaio's Zool. x. 618. 



THE brief description given by Linnaeus, of this bird, only 

 enables us to say, that the upper parts of the body are cinereous 

 brown, the head bluish ;# throat and breast white. 



The late Mr. White, of Gibraltar, informed us, that he had one 

 of these birds, brought to him alive in the spring, taken on the 

 Isthmus. He observes, that it is larger than the Blackcap, and has 

 white irides, which last circumstance is the only one on record in the 

 Warbler Genus; Gesner says the bird makes the nest of flax, hence 

 it is called Lingetta. M. Temminck is of opinion that it is the same 

 as the Babbling Warbler. 



72.— EPICUREAN WARBLER. 



Sylvia Ficedula, Lid. Orn. ii. 517. 



Motacilla Ficedula, Lin. i. 330. Faun. suec. No. 251. Gm, Lin. i. 956. Midler, No. 



271. Brun. No. 282. Klein, 79. 13. Frisch, t. 22.— male. Zinnan. Uov. 43. t. 



6. f. 28 ? 

 Ficedula sepiaria minor, Gerin. iv. t. 393. 1. 

 Muscicapa luctuosa, Tern. Man. p. 102. Id. Ed. ii. p. 157. 

 Ficedula, Bris. iii. 369. Id. 8vo. i. 413. Rati, 81. 12. Will. 163. 



* Gesner says ash-colour, his words are " Tertia species pectore albo, conspicitur ca- 

 pite cinereo," and adds " hanc Nidum aiunt ex lino struere, hinc forte Lingetta Anglis 

 dicta. 



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