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WHITETHROAT , a name commonly given to two See also:species of little birds, one of which, the Motacilla sylvia of See also:Linnaeus and Sylvia rufa or S. cinerea of See also:recent authors, is regarded as the type, not only of the genus Sylvia, but of the sub-See also:family of thrushes known as Sylviinae (cf. See also:WARBLER). Very widely spread over See also:Great See also:Britain, in some places tolerably See also:common, and by its gesticulations and See also:song rather conspicuous, it is one of those birds which have gained a See also:familiar See also:nickname, and "peggy whitethroat" is the anthropomorphic appellation of schoolboys and milkmaids, though it shares " See also:nettle-creeper " and other homely names with perhaps more than one congener, while to the writers and readers of books it is by way of distinction the greater See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white-See also:throat. The lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca, is both in habits and plumage a much less sightly See also:bird: the predominant reddish See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown of the upper See also:surface, and especially the rufous edging of the wing-feathers, that are so distinctive of its larger congener, are wanting, and the whole plumage above is of a smoky-See also:grey, while the bird in its movements is never obtrusive, and it rather shuns than courts observation. The nests of each of these species are very See also:pretty See also:works of See also:art, firmly built of bents or other plant-stalks, and usually lined with horsehair; but the sides and bottom are often so finely See also:woven as to be like open See also:basket-See also:work, and the eggs, splashed, spotted or streaked with See also:olive-brown, are frequently visible from beneath through the interstices of the fabric. This See also:style of See also:nest-See also:building seems to be common to all the species of the genus Sylvia, as now restricted, and in many districts has obtained for the builders the name of " See also:hay-See also:jack," quite without reference to the See also:kind of bird which puts the nests together, and thus is also applied to the blackcap, S. atricapilla, and the See also:garden-warbler--this last being merely a See also:book-name—S. salicaria (S. hortensis of some writers). The former of these deserves mention as one of the sweetest songsters of Great Britain. The name blackcap is applicable only to the See also:cock bird, who further differs from his brown-capped See also:mate by the purity of his ashy-grey upper plumage; but, notwithstanding the marked sexual difference in See also:appearance, he takes on himself a considerable See also:share of the duties of See also:incubation. All these four birds, as a See also:rule, leave Great Britain at the end of summer to See also:winter in the See also:south. Two other species, one certainly belonging to the same genus, S. orphea, and the other, S. nisoria, a some-what aberrant See also:form, have occurred two or three times in Great Britain. The curious See also:Dartford warbler of See also:English writers, Sylvia undata, is on many accounts a very interesting bird, for it is one of the few of its family that winter in See also:England—a fact the more remarkable when it is known to be migratory in most parts of the See also:continent of See also:Europe. Its See also:distribution in England is very See also:local, and chiefly confined to the See also:southern counties. It is a pretty little dark-coloured bird, which here and there may be seen on See also:furze-grown heaths from See also:Kent to See also:Cornwall. For a species with wings so feebly formed it has a wide range, inhabiting nearly all the countries of the Mediterranean seaboard, from See also:Palestine to the Strait of See also:Gibraltar, and thence along the See also:west See also:coast of Europe to the English Channel; but everywhere else it seems to be very local.
This may be the most convenient See also:place for noticing the small See also:group of warblers belonging to the well-marked genus Hypolais, which, though in See also:general appearance and certain habits resembling the Phylloscopi (cf. [See also:willow] See also:WREN), would seem usually to have little to do with those birds, and to be rather allied to the Sylviinae. They have a remarkably loud song, and in consequence are highly valued on the continent of Europe, where two species at least spend the summer. One of them, H. icterina, has occurred more than once in the See also:British Islands, and their See also:absence as See also:regular visitors is to be regretted. Among the See also:minor characteristics of this little group is one afforded by their eggs, which are of a deeper or paler brownish See also:pink, spotted with purplish See also:black. Their nests are beautiful structures, combining warmth with lightness in a way that cannot be fully appreciated by any description. (A.
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