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FAUVETTE. 
FALK. — A name for the Razor Bill. 
FALLOW FINCH. — A name for the Wheatear. 
FALLOW LUNCH. — A name for the Wheatear. 
FAUVETTE (^Sylvia hortensis, Bechstein.) 
*Motacllla hortensis, Linn. Syst. — Sylvia hortensis, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 
524. sp. 4. — Ib. Tasschenb. Deut. p. 169 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 509. sp. 3 — 
Turton, Faun. 1. p. 44. — La petit Fauvette, Buff. pi. Enl. 579. f. 2. — Curruca 
hortensis, Flem. 70 — Bec-fin Fauvette, Temm. Man d’Orn. 1. p. 206 — Graue- 
Grasrauiicke, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 224 Braemsluiper, Sepp. Nederl. 
Vog. 2. t. p. 139. — Greater Pettychaps, Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supp — Fauvette 
Pettychaps, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 218. — Garden Warbler, Sweet’s Br, War- 
bler, 4. — Selby, pi. 46. fig. 44. p. 176.* 
Length, six inches ; weight above five drams. Bill dusky above ; 
base of the under mandible yellowish ; irides hazel ; orbits white ; 
general colour of the plumage above light brown, inclining to olive ; 
below the ear is a dash of ash-colour ; throat, neck, breast, and sides, 
dirty white, inclining to brown on the two last ; belly and under tail 
coverts white ; quills and tail feathers dusky, edged with olive ; legs 
bluish brown. 
This species of warbler, which is not very plentiful in England, was 
first discovered in Lancashire, and sent from thence to Dr. Latham by 
Sir Ashton Lever. However, since it has become better known, it is 
found to arrive in several of the southern counties about the latter end 
of April or beginning of May. 
* Montagu informs us, says Selby, that it is found throughout the 
greater part of England ; but he fixes the Tyne as its northern limit. 
In this boundary of its migration he is certainly mistaken, as I have 
seen it on the north of the river Tweed ; and Syme informs us, that 
he has heard it on the Corstorphine Hills, two miles to the westward 
of Edinburgh ; he also heard it in the Roslin Woods, but was not 
aware what bird it was until he read Montagu’s description of it. It is 
a wild, shy, and timid bird, and it was with considerable difficulty he 
obtained a sight of it. He first heard its note among some low bushes, 
afterwards in a sloe-bush ; but on his approaching nearer, the warbling 
ceased. On waiting a little, however, he again heard the strain, and at 
length perceived it perched on the topmost branch of a tree below him, 
and immediately knew it to be the bird from which the delightful 
melody proceeded, by the direction of the sound, and the motion of its 
little throat. Its song is very little inferior to that of the nightingale. 
Some of the notes are sweetly and softly drawn ; others quick, lively, 
loud, and piercing, reaching the distant ear with a pleasing harmony, 
something like the whistle of the lilackbird, but in a more hurried 
cadence ; its song is frequently heard after sunset. 
