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Authors concede, with apparent probability, that the Fauvett^ of 

 Buffon and the Motacilla hortenfis of the Linnaean fyftem, are the 

 fame ; there mufl ever remain fome little obfcurity refpefting the 

 birds intended by Linnaeus, the fpecimens he defcribes being long 

 fince deflroyed or loft, and the figures in authors to which he refers 

 being lefs fatisfafiory than might be defired : it was once fuggefted to 

 LIS by a Swedifh naturalift, that it could not be hortenfis, but whether 

 the objedion arofe from a due confideration of the two birds, we are 

 not enabled to determine. 



With refpc£l: to the Lefler Pettychaps, the Motacilla Hippolais of 

 Linnaeus, it is fo definitively diflinft from the Greater Pettychaps^ 

 tliat wc Ihould have fcarccly deemed it necefiary to enter upon the 

 {ubje6l in this place, if it had not been obferved, that a late in- 

 genious author has defcribed it under the name of Hippolais, and 

 thus confounded the Greater and Lefler Pettychaps together as one 

 fpecies. The firft we have already defcribed at length, the other is 

 a fmall bird of very delicate ftruiSlure, and not larger than the little, 

 or Golden- crefted Wren, and is the fmalleft of the feathered tribe that 

 inhabits Britain. — The Lefler Pettychaps will be found delineated 

 in one of the immediately fucceeding Plates. 



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