136 LESSER WHITE-THROAT. 
or umber brown, but in this it is of a beautiful 
straw yellow, when nearly inspected appearing of 
the consistency of bronze. 
The Lesser White-throat — Curruca 
garrula, Briss . — Motacilla curruca, Linn . — 
Curruca garnda, JBriss. Selby. — Lesser White- 
throat of British authors. — This bird is not 
nearly so widely distributed in Britain as the 
last, which it resembles considerably in its 
habits, being even more noisy and restless ; it is 
also shy, and remains silent when intruded on. 
In the north we have not had opportunities of 
examining its habits, and in the descriptions of 
our modern ornithologists there is not much 
detail given, farther than that they are similar 
in most respects to the last. They are also said 
to breed in nearly the same situations. The 
nest, though slim and careless, is of a construc- 
tion rather warmer, wool and cottony substances 
being occasionally mixed in the lining. Its 
distribution in Britain is nearly similar to that 
of what may be termed the more southern war- 
blers : it is not plentiful in Wales, nor, we 
presume, in the more alpine districts of England ; 
but is known to extend northward as far as Dur- 
ham. Upon the border, in Scotland, or in 
Ireland, there has, however, been no instance of 
its capture recorded. On the Continent, its 
range is more extended, it visits the northern 
countries as well as Spain and Italy, and from 
the last even migrates with regularity, most 
