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BABBLING WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Curruca.) 



Sy. supra Jusca, subtus albida, reetricibus Juscis, extiiua margine 

 tenuiori alba. 



Warbler above brown, beneath whitish, with the tail-feathers 

 brown, the outer one with the inner margin white. 



Sylvia Curruca. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 509- 9. 



Motacilla Curruca. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 329. 6. — Liti. Faun, Suec, 

 2A7.^Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 954. 



Curruca garrula. Briss. Orn. 3. 384. 7. 



Fauvette babillarde. Buf, Hist, Nat, Ois. 5. rib^—Buff, PL 



Enl. 580,f. 3. 

 Kruka. Pen. Arct, Zool. 2. 422. u. 

 Babbling Warbler. Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 417. 



This is a very noisy and restless bird: it is 

 abundant in gardens in Pisa, where the natives 

 call it Bianchetto : it is likewise abundant in other 

 parts of Italy and France : its eggs are said by 

 some to be greenish, with brown spots ; but by 

 Linneus they are described as cinereous, sprinkled 

 with ferruginous: its food consists of insects and 

 their larvae. The bird is five inches in length : 

 its beak is dusky : the crown of its head is grey: 

 beneath the eye is a stripe of deep cinereous : the 

 upper parts of the neck and body resemble the 

 crown, but incline to brown: the quills are brown, 

 margined with white on their inner edges, and 

 with reddish grey on their outer : the primaries 

 are edged with cinereous : the under parts of the 

 body, and edge of the wing, are reddish white : 



