246 = Mr. Laws's Defeription, &c. 
I never heard thefe birds before laft fpring, and neverthelefs 
I have heard nine in the courfe of a month; four in Whitenight's 
Park, and five in my tour to the Ifle of Wight, viz. one ina = at 
Stratfield Sea, one at Eaft-Strattoù Park, two in the New Foreft, 
and one in a wood near Highclere: I have not heard it fince 
‘June 6. Colonel Montague informed me he had met with it in 
Wiltthire, and had called it the Wood Wren; it has alfo been 
heard near Uxbridge. | 
Jt differs from the Motacilla Hippolait (Linn.), in being much 
larger, of a finer green colour on the upper parts, and more beau- 
tiful white beneath; alfo in the yellow ftreak paffing through the 
. eye, which in the Hippolais pafles above and below the eye. It 
differs alfo from the Motacilla Trochilus (Linu,), in being larger, 
and white on the under parts, which are yellow in the Trochilus. 
The three which I opened were all males: I fhall fill continue 
my refearches for the female with the neft and eggs; and if I 
fhould at any time meet with them, I fhall with pleafure fubmit 
my obfervations to the Linnean Society. 
Tas. 24. exhibits the Wood Wren of its natural fize. 
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