2 12 BRITISH BIRDS. 
THE LESSER FAUVETTE. 
PASSERINE WARBLER. 
(Mot a cilia pajjerina , Lin .— Le Pafferinette , Buff.) 
Length nearly the fame as the laft : Bill pale 
brown; upper parts of the body brown, flightly 
tinged with olive green ; under parts dulky white, 
a little inclining to brown acrofs the breall ; quills 
dulky, with pale edges ; tail dulky ; over each eye 
there is an indiltin£t whitifh line ; legs pale brown. 
The male and female are much alike : The eggs 
are of a dull white, irregularly marked with duf- 
ky and black fpots. — This bird is alfo a mocker, 
but its fong is not fo powerful as the laft. 
