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XXL Defeription of a New Species of Warbler, called the Wood Wren, 
obferved in May 1792. By Mr. Thomas Lamb, A. L. Ss 
Read Nov. 6, 1792.. 
HE length is five inches and a half; bill horn-colour; up-- 
per mandible bent at the tip, and rather longer than the 
under; irides hazel; noftrits befet with briftles; top of the head,. 
neck, back and tail coverts. olive-green ; throat and cheeks yel- 
low, paler on. the. breaft ;; belly and. vent of a moft beautiful 
filvery. white; through: the eye paffes.a yellow line; wings and 
coverts brown, edged with green; the tail confifts of twelve fea- 
thers, rather forked, and of a brown colour, edged with green on 
the: exterior webs, and with white on the interior, the firft feae 
ther wanting the green edge; under part of the fhoulder bright 
yellow; legs rather more than an inch long, of a. — 
claws paler. 
This is undoubtedly a new fpecies in England, and I believe a 
non-defcript: it inhabits. woods, and. comes with the reft of the 
fummer warblers, and in manners is much the fame, running up 
and down trees in fearch of infects. 
I heard it firft, early in May, in Whitenight’s Park, near Read-- 
ing; it was there hopping about on the upper branch of a very 
High pine, and having a very fingular and fingle note, it attracted 
my attention, being very much like that of the Emberiza Miliaria: 
(Linn.), but fo aftonifhingly fhrill that I heard it at more than a 
hundred yards diftance: this it repeated once in three or four 
minutes, 
I never. 
