Babillard and Nest, with the White-throat above. 
BABILLARD {Curruca garrula^ Brisson.) 
*Motacilla Dumetorum, GmeL p 1. 985. 31. — Motacllla garrula, Linn, Faun. Suec. 
pp. 254. 235. — Sylvia curruca, Lath. Ind. Orn.2. p.509. 9. — 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- 
mvicke, Meyer, 1. p. 226. — Frisch, Y'6ge\, 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. A ret. 
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. 
