. A history of British birds . shorter than the fourth or fifthwhich nearly equal the third. The female has the head of nearly the same colour as theback and wants the rosy tint on the breast, while the othercolours are less pure. Young birds have a light-coloured space between the billand the eye; the irides are yellowish-brown, and the outeitail-feathers tinged with rufous. This species, being the Motacilla sylvia of Linnaeus,seems, in the absence of other means of determination,most proper to be regarded as the type of the genus Sylviainstituted by Scopoli and afterwards recognized by Latha
. A history of British birds . shorter than the fourth or fifthwhich nearly equal the third. The female has the head of nearly the same colour as theback and wants the rosy tint on the breast, while the othercolours are less pure. Young birds have a light-coloured space between the billand the eye; the irides are yellowish-brown, and the outeitail-feathers tinged with rufous. This species, being the Motacilla sylvia of Linnaeus,seems, in the absence of other means of determination,most proper to be regarded as the type of the genus Sylviainstituted by Scopoli and afterwards recognized by many authors the generic uame Currtoca has been used forthe birds of this group, but that course is clearly opposed toevery principle of priority. Very nearly allied to the GreaterWhitethroat is the South-European 8. con picillata. Onthe other hand the Indian S. affinu, which has been regardedas identical with the present bird, more nearly resembles thenext to be described. VOL. i. 3 G 410PASSE RIJS. Sylvia curruca (Linnaeus*). THE LESSEE WHITETHROAT. Curruca sylviella f. This pretty Warbler was first discovered in this countryby Lightfoot, who, as already mentioned, first recognized theReed-Wren: he found it near Bulstrode in Buckingham-shire and sent specimens to Latham, who, in 1787, gave adescription and bad figure of it in the Supplement to hisGeneral Synopsis of Birds (i. p. 185, pi. cxiii.). ThisWarbler visits many parts of England every year, commonlyarriving about the middle of April, but is said to have beennoticed in Cornwall as early as March, and it has been obtainedin this country so late as the second week of October. Inmany of its habits it closely resembles the preceding species,but is inferior to it as a songster. It fre. 515 [1790 . LESSER WHITETHKOAT. 411 hedges, shrubberies, orchards and gardens, and is occasion-ally to
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