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LESSER WHITETHROAT. 
Sylvia sylviella, Pennant. MONTAGU. 
“  dumetorum, LaTHAM. 
<-  curruca, TEMMINCKE. 
Motacilia curruca, LINN US, 
a sylviella, BEWICK. 
ef dumetorumy GMELIN, 
Curruca sylviella, FLEMING, 
“ -garrula, GouLp. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Sylviella—A diminutive of Sylva. 
Tue Rev. John Lightfoot was the first discoverer of this 
as a British species, having met with it near Bulstrode, in 
Buckinghamshire. 
On the continent this plain-plumaged but beautiful little 
bird is met with from south to north, as: far as Sweden, from 
Spcin and Italy, but migratory in all. In Asia also it has 
been noticed, in the East Indies. 
The Lesser Whitethroat is found throughout the southern 
and eastern counties of England, and becomes more rare to the 
westward and northward. In Yorkshire it is not an unusual 
species in the neighbourhood of ‘Thirsk, as Mr. Swarbreck 
writes me word; also near Halifax, Doncaster, Huddersfield, 
Hebden-Bridge, Sheffield, and York: near Bridlington it is 
seldom seen, and then only in spring and autumn, and is 
not known to breed there. In Cumberland one was shot by 
Mr. J. Barnes, at Rose Hill, near Carlisle, in the summer of 
1849. In Devonshire one was shot at Mutley, recorded by 
R. A. Julian, Esq., Junior, in ‘The Naturalist,’ volume i, page 
87; it occurs also in other parts. In Cornwall two were 
seen near Budock Church, March 14th., 1848, as mentioned 
by Mr. Cocks, page 63. In Cambridgeshire it is far from 
uncommon. In Derbyshire it is common, and in Surrey is 
extremely plentiful. It is found in Durham, Wiltshire, 
