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LIL. Defcriptions of three rare Species of Britifh Birds. By G, Montagu, 
Ef. F.L.S. 
Read, March 1, 1796, 
1 SYLVIA SYLVICOLA.—WOOD WREN. 
§. virefcens fubtus flavefcens, fuperciliis luteis, abdomine criffoque 
Miveis. ; et 
Afilus major, Briff orn. 3. p. 482. A. 
Regulus non criftatus major, W7//. orn, se 228,-White, Hy if. Selb. 
Pe 55» 
Laubvégelchen, Naturf. 27. a 47.4. 
‘Wood Wren, Linn. Tranf. 2. p. 245. ph 24. 
N the latter end of April.in the year 1790, as I was walking 
with my gun, I was attracted by the note of a bird I had never 
before noticed, and prefently difcovered it on an oak-tree, at the 
verge of a wood in the parifh of Eafton Grey in the county of 
Wilts. The firft appearance of the bird much refembled that of 
the Yellow Wren, Motacilla\Trochilus; but its note and manners at 
once decided it to be a very different {pecies. It is an aétive reftlefs 
bird, and, at the time I {hot it, was exceffively bufy in purfuing 
fome fpecies of winged infect, which feems to be its principal food. 
i near si it might readily have been miftaken for the 
F 2 Trochils, 
