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in Buckinghamfhire, in May and June, and it is from a fpecimert 
found by him, and prefented to the late Duchefs of Portland, that 
our figure is taken. The neft on which the bird is placed is com- 
pofed of dry bents mixed with wool, and lined with a few hairs of 
fome animal, probably of a Cow. ‘There is at prefent only one egg 
in the neft*; it is cf a pale colour, with {mall irregular fpots of 
brown. 
It was the opinion of Mr. Latham, to whofe infpeGtion Mr. Light- 
foot fubmitted this bird, that it was perhaps the AZctacilla Sylvia of 
Linnzus; or that certainly it differed very little from it. Mr. Pennant 
nlfo feems undetermined whether the White Throat was the J. 
Sylvia of Linnzus ; though Berkenhout t gives it as that fpecies 
without hefitation.’ The opinion of Mr. Latham is of the moft 
importance ; and, if it does not pofitively comfirm our bird being the 
true J. Sylvia of Linnaeus it proves, at lealt, that the White Throat 
is not that bird as has been generally fuppofed f. | 
-The male arid female are very much alike. The fize is that of 
the Yellow Wren, length lefs than five inches. 

* Mr. Latham fays there were three in that which came under his infpectien. 
t+ Outlines of Nat. Hift. 
t “ That Linnzus’s bird is not our White Throat, I believe is manifeft, both from 
fize and colours. ‘Phat author exprefsly fays, that the fize fcarcely exceeds that of the 
Yellow Wren, and that it bears great affinity to the Sedge Bird. But that the bird in 
queftion is neither the Yellow Wren, nor Sedge Bird, 1 am clear, as I have all the three 
before me.” 
Lath. Suppl. Gen. Syn. 1. 186. 
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