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bramble, or black thorn, or large herbaceous 
plants, which form the under growth to some 
wood or plantation : it is rather loosely constructed 
of straws, of the stalks of grasses, slender roots, 
&c. lined with a few hairs or fine straws. The 
eggs are four or five, of a yellowish gray or pale 
purplish brown, spotted and blotched with dark 
markings of the latter colour. The retired habits 
of the species may in part account for it ; but 
from the testimony of all our modern observers, 
it seems by no means commonly seen or heard 
either in Britain or in Ireland. On the Conti- 
nent, again, it seems to reach almost as far north 
as the last, visiting Sweden. To the south, we 
know of its occurrence in Italy ; but we seem to 
have no record whatever of its appearance beyond 
the European boundary, or in Africa. 
In form very similar to the last ; the whole of 
the upper parts yellowish hair brown ; darker on 
the quills and tail ; and having above the eyes an 
indistinct streak of a lighter colour. The breast 
and flanks are yellowish white ; the chin and 
centre of the belly nearly pure white. There 
seems little difference, except in the intensity or 
clearness of the colours, between the sexes. 
The White Throat — Curruca cinerea, 
Bechstein. — Motacilla cinerea, Linn. — Sylvia 
cinerea, Latham. — Curruca cinerea, Selby. — 
White-throat, or common white-throat of British 
authors. — The two previous species we have seen 
