[F. fauvette, f. fauve fallow.] The name given by French writers to a family of Warblers, and adopted by Bewick.
1797. Bewick, Brit. Birds, I. 209. The Fauvette. Pettichaps (Motacilla hippolais, Lin., La Fauvette, Buff.). Ibid., 212. The Lesser Fauvette. Passerine Warbler. Ibid., 213. The Winter Fauvette. Hedge Warbler, Hedge Sparrow, or Dunnock. Ibid., 216. This disposition, which is common to all the Fauvettes, as well as to this which breeds in watery places, seems to characterise the instinctive wildness of the whole species.
1802. G. Montagu, Ornith. Dict., Fauvette (Sylvia hortensis, Bechstein).
1839. Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. Birds, II. 345. Sylvia Hortensis, the Garden Warbler … Fauvette … Garden Fauvet.
