36 Mr. MontaguV Befcriptwns of 



TrochiluSy had I not been attentive to its note and actions. Having 

 recollected that Mr. White, in his Nat. Hift. of Selborne, page $$, 

 fpeaks of three diftinct fpecies of Yellow Wrens, I concluded this 

 to be one, as doubtlefs the Motaalla Trochilus and Motacilla Hippolais 

 are the other two. In order therefore to compare thofe with this 

 fpecies, I fhot frefh fpecimens, with which that country abounds,, 

 and by which I was thoroughly convinced they were diftincf. ; and 

 in all probability this is the identical bird Mr. White calls the 

 Large ft Yellow Wren, and defcribes as inhabiting the high woods 

 of beech at Selborne. 



As this elegant little fpecies of warbler feems to have efcaped the 

 notice, or at leafl the hiftoric attention, of ornithologifh, probably 

 from confounding it with the Yellow Wren,, it was my intention to 

 prefent it to the Linnean Society as foon as opportunity offered the 

 difcovery of its neft and eggs, in order that it might be added to 

 the lift of Britiih birds. In a tour through South Wales "the fol- 

 lowing fpring, I found* this fpecies not unfrequent in the oak woods 

 of Carmarthen [hire. The firft 1 faw that feafon was on the 29th 

 of April, the thermometer at 51 at 9 o'clock A. M. and, in a week 

 after, a great many more arrived, which, from their inceffant chirp- 

 ing and actions, I took to be all males. About the middle of May 

 I plainly difcovered fome females were arrived, and on the 30th of 

 that month I had the good fortune to find two nefts, by watchino- 

 the birds with forne of the materials in their bills, and foon after took 

 them with fix eggs each ; and in order to clear the matter beyond 

 doubt, I caught one of the females on the neft, and fhot the male, 

 who approached very near, at the fame time. It may not be 

 improper to remark, that I found thefe birds in greateft plenty 

 in coppice woods of oak of about eighteen or twenty years 

 growth : their flight is fhort, flow and vibrating, as they move 

 horn fpray to fpray, fetclom varying their fituation above twenty 



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