Babillard and Nest, with the White-throat above. 



BABILLARD (Curruca garrula, Brisson.) 



* Motacilla Dumetorum, GmeL p 1. 985. 31. — Motacilla garrula, Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 pp. 254. 235.— Sylvia curruca, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 509. Q.—Temm. 1. p. 209.— 

 Curruca garrula, Bris. 3. p. 384. 7. — Motacilla curruca, Gmel. 1. p. 954. 62. — 

 Curruca Sylviella, Flem. p. 71. — Turton, Br. Faun. 1. p. 45. — Klapper Gras- 

 miicke, Meyer, 1. p. 226. — Frisch, Vbgel, T. 21. 2. A., very correct fig. — Naum.T. 

 34. fig. 70., very correct fig. — La Fauvette Babillarde, Buf. 5. p. 135. — Planch. 

 Enlum. p. 580. 3. bad fig. — Bianchetto, Scopoli, Ann. 1.— Karuka, Penn. Arct. 

 Zool. 2. p. 422. U.— Babbling Warbler, Lath. Syn. 4. p. 417.— White-breasted 

 Warbler, Lath. Syn. 4. p. 447. 41. — Lesser Whitethroat, Lightfoot in Lath. Syn. 

 Supp. 185. T. 113.— Mont. Orn. Diet. & Supp.— Atkinson, p. 89.— Sweet, Br. 

 Warbl. 8.— Penn. Br. Zool. 1. p. 529. ed. 1812.— Shaw's Gen. Zool. 10. p. 599. 

 —Don. 4. pi. 86.— Lath. Gen. Hist. 7. 47. pi. 105. a very bad fig. of the bird, 

 nest, and eggs, — the nest being like a piece of clay. 



As this species has been so strangely confounded by British naturalists 

 with the white-throat, I have been induced to substitute a foreign 

 name for the inappropriate appellation of the lesser white-throat. 



