86 WARBLER. 



courageously bold in defence of them. M. Buftbn has given the 

 figure in PL enl. 581. 3. as a representation of this Species, but it 

 must be remarked, that it has a long and cuneiform tail, such as the 

 Grasshopper Warbler possesses ; whereas the tail of the Fig-eater is 

 not of half the length, and hollowed out in the middle, the wings 

 reaching to the middle of it. 



74— PASSERINE WARBLER. 



Sylvia passerina, Ind. Orti. ii. 508. Gm. Lin. i. 954. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 213. 



Curruca minor, Bris. iii. 371. Id. Svo. i. 414. 



Muscicapa secunda Aldrovandi, Borin, Raii, 81. Will. 158. Id. Engl. 216. Aldr.Av. 



ii. 733. t. p. 734. Zinnan. Uov. 46. t. 6. f. 31. 

 Passerinette, Buf. v. 123, PI. enl. 579. 2. Hist. Prov. i. 509. 

 Passerine Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 414. Shaw's Zool. x. 739. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter. Bill slender, and sharp, 

 colour brown ; irides red brown; plumage above pale ash-colour; 

 beneath greyish white, inclining to brown on the sides;* over the 

 eye a small whitish streak; quills and tail dusky; legs lead-colour. 



Inhabits various parts of the Continent of Europe, but not in 

 this kingdom ; common in Lombardy, Italy, Sardinia, the south of 

 Spain, and Portugal, &c. At Provence, in France, it is called Pas- 

 serinette ;f by the people of Bologna Chivin ; at Marseilles, Becafi- 

 gulo; and by the Genoese, Borin. It is said to make the nest on a 

 low bush, near the ground, composed of dry grass, lined with finer 

 materials ; the eggs are four in number, of a dirty white, spotted with 

 green of two colours, most numerous at the larger end ; the note is 

 only a chirp or two, which it repeats when passing from one shrub 

 to another. 



* Rump white according to Aldrovandus. f Bewick's Passerine Warbler, p. 212. 



I am not sufficiently clear about. 



