Curruca cinerea,Meyer, British Birds, folio Ed., vol, i (coloured plate figuring adult male and egg) [1835–43]; Hewitson, British Oology, 1st Ed., vol, i, pl. 116, 2 figs. (eggs) [1836]; id., Eggs of British Birds, 2nd Ed., vol, i, pp. 96–97, pl. 27, figs. 5 and 6 (eggs), 1846; Booth, Rough Notes, vol, ii, pp. 53–54, 1883.
Sylvia cinerea,Macgillivray, British Birds, vol, ii, pp. 350–356 (woodcut of head), 1839; Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, 3rd Ed., vol, i, pp. 130-131, pl. 35, figs. 1 and 2 (eggs), 1854; Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol, ii, 2 pp, pi. 57 (coloured figures of adult male and female), 1865; Seebohm, British Birds, vol, i, pp. 405–409, pl. 10, fig. 5 (egg), 1883; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol, iii, p. 50, pl. 25 (coloured figures of adult male and female), 1885; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 41–42 (woodcut), 1897.
Sylvia rufa,Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol, i, edited by Newton, pp. 406–409 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol, ii, pp. 377–381, pl. 57 (coloured figures of adult males), 1876.
Adult Male in Spring.—The upper parts and the sides of the head are ashy grey, tinged slightly with ochre, the lores a slightly darker ash grey, and the rest of the upper parts brown washed with ochre. The tail-feathers are sepia brown, edged with the same colour as the back, the outermost being white or huffish white with an oblique spot on the inner web near the root. The wing-feathers are also sepia brown, the greater and median coverts being broadly margined with rusty buff. The primaries and greater coverts are sepia brown, narrowly edged with light brown, the bastard wing sepia edged with light brown, and the least wing-coverts brown slightly washed with buff. The throat is pure white,
