36 Mr.Montacu’s Defcriptions of 
Trochilus, had I not been attentive to its note and aétions. Having 
recolleéted that Mr. White, in his-Nat. Hitt. of Selborne, page 555. 
{peaks of three diftinét {pecies of Yellow Wrens, I concluded this 
to be one, as doubtlefs the Motacilla Trochilus and Motacilla Hippolais 
are the other two. In order therefore to compare thofe with this 
fpecies, I fhot frefh {pecimens, with which that country abounds, 
and by which I was thoroughly convinced they were diftinét; and 
in all probability this” is the ‘identical bird Mr. White calls the 
Largeft Yellow Wren, and defcribes as inhabiting the high woods 
of beech at Selborne. , 
As this elegant little {pecies of warbler feems to have efcaped the 
notice, or at leaft the hiftoric attention, of ornithologifts,* probably 
from confounding it with. the Yellow Wren, it Was my intention to 
prefent it to the Linnean Society as foon as opportunity offered the 
difcovery of its neft and eggs, in order that it might be added to 
the lit of Britifh birds. In a'tour through South Wales the fol- 
lowing. {pring, I found this fpecies not unfrequent in the oak woods 
of Carmarthenfhire. The firft I faw that feafon was on the 29th 
of April, the thermometer at 51 at g o’clock A. M. and, in a week 
after, a great many more arrived, which, from their inceffant chirp- 
ing and a¢tions, I took to be all males. About the middle of May 
I plainly difcovered fome females were arrived, and om the 3oth of 
that month f had the good fortune to find two nefts, by watching 
the birds with fome of the materials in their bills, and foon after took 
them with fix eggs each ; and in order to clear the matter beyond 
doubt, I caught one of the females on the neft, and fhot the male, 
who approached very near, at the fame time. It may not be 
improper to remark, that I found thefe birds in greateft plenty 
in coppice woods of oak of about eighteen or twenty years 
growth: their flight is fhort, flow and vibrating, as they move 
trom fpray to fpray, feldom varying their fituation above twenty 
yards 
