PASSERES. ( 73 ) SYLVIID^. 



THE WOOD WREN. 



WOOD WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, LARGER WILLOW WREN, 

 YELLOW WILLOW WREN, GREEN WREN. 



Phylloscop US sihilatrix. 



Wors/ilp, ye that lovers be, this May, 



For of your bliss the calends are begun : 

 And si fig with us. Away! IV inter, away! 



Come, Stinimer, come! the sweet seasoji and sun. 



James i., The King's QuairA 



This beautiful and interesting little bird generally arrives in 

 Berwickshire between the third week of April and the third 

 week of May, when it may be seen in some of the woods, 

 poised amongst the newly opened and delicate yellowish 

 green leaves of the beech," singing its sweet and peculiar 

 song, which resembles the words "Twee-twee-twee," repeated 

 slowly at first, but afterwards quickly, and accompanied 

 towards the end by a quivering of the wings. 



It appears to be increasing in numbers, and extending to 

 new districts in the county yearly. Mr. Hardy records its 

 first appearance in the Pease Dean on the 8th of May 1873,^ 



1 Written bj' James i. of Scotland in commendation of Lady Jane Beaufort 

 (daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and grand-daughter of John of 

 Gaunt), when he was in seclusion at Windsor Castle, and whom he afterwards 

 married. 



- Selby says that he has noticed that the arrival of the Wood Wren may be 

 expected with the first bursting of the buds of the oak and the beech. — Hist. 

 Ber. Nat. Club, vol. ii. p. 71. 



s Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 110. 



