W HITETHROAT. 
Curruca cinerea, Meyer, British Birds, folio Ed., vol. i (coloured plate 
figuring adult male and egg) [1835-43]; Hewitson, British Oology, 
Ist Ed., vol. i, pl. 116, 2 figs. (eggs) [1836] ; id., Hggs of British 
Birds, 2nd Kd., vol. i, pp. 96-97, pl. 27, figs. 5 and 6 (eggs), 1846 ; 
Booth, Rough Notes, vol. ii, pp. 53-54, 1883. 
Sylvia cinerea, Macgillivray, British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 8350-356 (woodcut of 
head), 1839; Hewitson, Hggs of British Birds, 3rd Tid., vol. i, pp. 
130-131, pl. 85, figs. 1 and 2 (eggs), 1854; Gowld, Birds of Great 
Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp, pl. 57 (coloured figures of adult male and 
female), 1865 ; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 405-409, pl. 10, fig. 5 
(egg), 1883 ; Lilford, Colowred Figures, vol. iii, p. 50, pl. 25 (coloured 
figures of adult male and female), 1885 ; Sawnders, Manual of British 
Birds, 2nd Hd., pp. 41-42 (woodcut), 1897, 
Sylvia rufa, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, edited by Newton, 
pp. 406-409 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, 
pp. 377-381, pl. 57 (coloured figures of adult males), 1876. 
Croatian, Prosta Grmusa; Danish, Torn-Sanger ; Dutch, Grasmusch ; 
French, Fauwvette grise ; German, Dorn-grasmiicke ; Hungarian, Kéydnségeo 
posydta; Italian, Sterpazzola; Norwegian, Graasanger ; Swedish, Torn- 
Sangare; Russian, Polewaya ; Polish, Pokryywka popielata. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 
Adult Male in Spring.—The upper parts and the sides of 
the head are ashy grey, tinged slightly with ochre, the lores a 
slightly darker ash grey, and the rest of the upper parts brown 
washed with ochre. The tail-feathers are sepia brown, edged 
with the same colour as the back, the outermost being white 
or buffish white with an oblique spot on the inner web 
near the root. The wing-feathers are also sepia brown, the 
greater and median coverts being broadly margined with 
rusty buff. The primaries and greater coverts are sepia 
brown, narrowly edged with light brown, the bastard wing 
sepia edged with light brown, and the least wing-coverts 
brown slightly washed with buff. The throat is pure white, 
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