Whitethroat

To Amilcare Passavente, the young merchant-adventurer from Leghorn, ravished as he was by the spell of her cool lips, she became at once "La divina Maria," or shorter, "La Diva"; and in a very light space of time, when his acquaintance with her and hers with his tongue had ripened, she had quite a nosegay of names: Madonna Collebianca (my Lady Whitethroat),

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

Some of those Sparrows are so much alike that it is hard for me to tell them apart, but I can always tell Whitethroat because he is one of the largest of the tribe and has such a lovely white throat.

Burgess Bird Book for Children 1919

"Speaking of the sparrow family, did you see anything of Whitethroat?" asked Jenny Wren, as she rested for a moment in the doorway of her new house and looked down at Peter Rabbit.

Burgess Bird Book for Children 1919

The structure closely resembled that of the Whitethroat was lined with grass and fibrous roots; no down, feathers, or fur were observable.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Whinchat, 28th; Mocking-bird and Whitethroat, 4th May; Swift, 7th;

Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838

It is, perhaps, difficult to say whether it has a note which is not an imitation of some other bird, but there is one which it always makes use of when any person approaches its nest (intermixed, however, with the notes of the Swallow, Whinchat, and Whitethroat).

Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838

Whitethroat, _Ficedulae In April, and on to affinis_.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

This is bad news for birds like the Whitethroat, a common farmland bird.

Mongabay.com News 2009

Mr. Brooks writes: -- "I found this Whitethroat tolerably numerous in

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870