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III. Defcriptiom of three rare Specks ofBrlti/h Birds, By G. Montagu, 



Efq. F.L.S. 



Read March i, 1796. 



T. SYLVIA SYLVICOLA.— WOOD WREN. 



S. virefcens fubtus fiavefcens, fuperciliis luteis, abdomine criflbque 

 niveis. 



Afilus major, Brijf. orn. 3. p. 482. A. 



Regulus non criftatus major, Will. orn. p. 228.— White, Hijl. SelK 



/• 55- 

 Laubvogekhen, Naturf. 27. p. 47. 4. 



Wood WreBf Linn. Tranf. 2. p. 245. ph 24. 



IN the latter end of April in the year 1790, as I was walking 

 with my gun, I was attracted by the note of a bird I had never 

 before noticed, and prefently difcovered it on an oak-tree, at the 

 verge of a wood in the parifli of Eafton Grey in the county of 

 Wilts. The firft appearance of the bird much refembled that of 

 the Yellow Wren, Motacilla Trochilus ; but its note and manners at 

 once decided it to be a very different fpecies. It is an active reftlefs 

 bird, and, at the time I {hot it, was exceffively bufy in purfuing 

 fome fpecies of winged infeft, which feems to be its principal food. 

 Upon near infpeclion it might readily have been miftaken for the 



F 2 Trochilus, 



