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WHITE-THROATED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia cinerea.) 



Sy. supra cinerea, subt7is alba^ rectrice prima longitudinaliter di- 

 midiato alba, secunda apice alba. 



Warbler above cinereous, beneath white, with the outer tail- 

 feather longitudinally half white, the next tipped with white. 



Sylvia cinerea. Lath. Lid, Orn. 2. 514. 23. 



Motacilla Sylvia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 330. 9. — Lin, Faun. Suec. 

 250. — Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 956. 



Parus cinereus. Briss. Orn, 3. 549. 4. 



Mesange cendree. Biiff\ Hist. Nat, Ois. 5. 40g. 3. 



j8. supra ri//b-cinerea, subtus rufo alba, gula alba. 



Above of a reddish ash, beneath reddish white^ with the throat 

 white. 



Curruca cinerea sive cineraria. Briss. Orn. 3. 3y6.pl' 21. /. 1. 

 Fauvette grise^ ou la Grissette. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 132. — 



Buff. PL Enl. 57Q,f. 3. 

 Le Bouscarle de Provence. Buff. Hist. Nat, Ois, 5. 134. ? — 



Buff. PI. Enl. 655. f. 2. ? 

 White-throat. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. \6o.—Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 



422. s. — Will. Ang. 210. — Albin. Birds. 3. pi. 58. — Lewin. 



Brit, Birds. 3. pi. lOA.— White. Hist. Selb. 103.— Lath. Gen. 



Si/n. 4. 428. 19. — Betvick. Brit. Birds. 1. 219. — Mont. Orn, 



Diet. 2. 



The White-throat weighs about four drams, 

 and is in length five inches and three quarters : 

 its beak is dusky brown above, whitish beneath : 

 irides yellowish: the whole of the upper parts 

 cinereous browil, the wing-coverts darkest, edged 

 with brown, and tinged with rufous : quills dusky, 

 slightly edged with grey-brown: under parts of 

 the plumage grey-brown, the thighs and breast 



