garden warbler
- any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
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Beccafico, a European bird (Sylvia hortensis), the garden-warbler.
The garden-warbler, too, is quite a stranger, and I have never recognised it in these parts at all.
In a Cheshire GardenGeoffrey Egerton-Warburton