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LESSER WHITETHROAT. 
Curruca sylviella, Hewitson, British Oology, 1st Ed., vol. i, pl. 42, fig. 4 
(egg), 1833; ad. Eggs of British Birds, 2nd EHd., vol. i, p. 98, pl. 27, 
fig. 4 (egg), 1846 ; Booth, Rough Notes, vol. ii, p. 55, 1883. 
Curruca garrula, Meyer, British Birds, folio Hd., vol. i (coloured plate 
figuring adult male and egg) [1835-43]. 
Sylvia garrula, Macgillivray, British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 357-360, 1839. 
Sylvia curruca, Hewitson, Hggs of British Birds, 3rd Ed., vol. i, p. 132, pl. 
35, fig. 4 (egg), 1854; Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp, 
pl. 58 (coloured figure of adult male and female), 1865; Yarreil, 
British Birds, 4th Hd., vol. i, edited by Newton, pp. 410-413 
(woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Hurope, pp. 383-888, pl. 58, 
(coloured figure of adult male), 1876; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, 
pp. 410-413, pl. 10, fig. 6 (egg), 1883; Lilford, Colowred Figures, 
vol. ili, p. 52, pl. 26 (coloured figure of adult male), 1885 ; Saunders, 
Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp.43-44 (woodeut), 1897. 
Croatian, Grmusa Swoperke ; Danish, Gjerde-Sanger ; Dutch, Braam- 
sluiper ; French, Bec-fin babillard ; German, Zaun-Grasmiicke ; Hungarian, 
Szurke posydata; Italian, Bzgiarella; Norwegian, Graesmutte ; Swedish, 
Artsangare ; Russian, Peresmeshka. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 
Adult Male in Spring.—The upper parts are brownish 
erey, but the crown is more ashy erey, the lores and sides of 
the head being of the same colour, but darker. The wings 
and tail-feathers are brownish grey, the innermost secondaries 
being broadly and the primaries narrowly edged with the 
same colour as the back, and the bastard wing is slaty brown. 
The rump and upper tail-coverts are brownish grey, slightly 
lighter than the back, and the tail-feathers are edged with the 
same colour, the outermost being whitish with an oblique 
smoke-coloured spot on the inner web. The under parts are 
whitish, pure white on the throat, faintly washed with pinkish 
buff on the upper breast, and light buffish brown on the flanks. 
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