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PHYLLOPNEUSTE TROCHILUS. THE WILLOW 

 WOODWREN. 



WILLOW WARBLER. WILLOW WREN. GROUND WREN. HAY BIRD. 

 HUCK-MUCK. 



Motacilla Trochilus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 3.38. 



Sylvia Trochilus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 550. 



Yellow Wren. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bee-fin Pouillot. Sylvia Trochilus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 224. 



YeUow Wren. Sylvia Trochilus. Selb. lUustr. I. 226. 



Sylvia Trochilus. Willow Wren. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 11 L 



Length about fite inches ; wings of moderate lengthy the second 

 quill shorter than the fifths which, with the third and fourth, has 

 its outer web cut out towards the end ; the tipper parts light 

 greenish-brown, the feathers edged with yellowish-green ; the 

 cheeks and sides of the neck pale greyish-brown tinged with yel- 

 low ; the fore-neck and sides greyish-white streaked with yellow ; 

 the breast and abdomen white ; the lower tail-coverts yellowish- 

 white. 



Male. — The Willow Woodwren, which is generally dis- 

 tributed, and in most parts of the country of common occur- 

 rence, is, like the last, a delicate and most active little bird, 

 less brightly coloured than it, but equally pleasing on account 

 of its liveliness and its cheerful song. Of the three British 

 species of this genus it is that which is most frequently met 

 with. 



The bill is rather short, very slender, straight, broader than 

 high at the base, compressed towards the end ; the upper man- 

 dible having the dorsal line towards the end declinate, the tip 

 a little longer than that of the lower, and although very nar- 

 row, truncate, and having a distinct notch ; the lower man- 

 dible with its dorsal line very slightly convex. Internally the 

 upper mandible is very slightly concave, with a prominent 



