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PHYLLOPNEUSTE SYLVICOLA. THE YELLOW 

 WOODWREN. 



Wood Wreu. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bee-fin siffleur. Sylvia Sibilatrix. Temm. Man. d'Orn, I. '22.'3. 

 Sylvia sylvieola. Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. Vol. II. 53. 

 Wood-Wren. Sylvia Sibilatrix. Selb. Illustr. I. 224. 

 Sylvia sibilatrix. Wood-Wren. Jen, Brit. Vert. An. 110, 



Length about Jive inches ; wings long, the second quill inter- 

 mediate in length between the third and fourth, tchich icith the 

 fifth hate their outer webs cut out totvards the end ; the upper 

 parts light yellowish-green, the throat and sides of the breast gel- 

 low, the breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts white. 



Male. — The Yellow Wooclwren bears so great a resem- 

 blance to the next species, the Willow Woodwren, that a per- 

 son not having before him specimens of both, would find some 

 difficulty in determining to which of the two an individual of 

 either belonged. At the same time, the characters afforded by 

 the wings are perfectly distinctive. The present species is a 

 slender, delicate, and lively little bird, not unfrequent in open 

 woods and thickets in many parts of the country, but not near- 

 ly so often met with as the Willow Woodw^ren, as it more 

 commonly keeps among the higher branches, and is besides 

 much less numerous. 



