WOOD WARBLER. 



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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTHIiS. 



SYLVIAD^. 



THE WOOD WARBLER. 



Sylvia sylvicola, Wood Warbler, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 512. 



,, ,, ,, Wren, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Motacilla trucliilus, Yellotv ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 264. 



Curruca sibillatrix, Wood ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 70. 



Sylvia ,, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 224. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 110. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 

 ,, ,, Bec-^n S/^eur, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 223. 



Sylvia. — Generic Characters. — Beak straight, slender, conical, pointed, 

 slightly notched at the tip ; sides compressed ; base furnished with fine hairs. 

 Nostrils basal, lateral, oval. Wings, with the first quill very short ; the second 

 shorter than the third, the third the longest in the wing. Legs, with the tarsi 

 longer than the middle toe ; toes, three before, one behind ; the outer toe 

 joined at the base to the middle toe. 



The Wood Warbler, though called Motacilla trochihis 

 by Gilbert White of Selborne, was clearly distinguished by 

 him from the two most nearly allied species, and particu- 

 larised in his letters to his friend Pennant in the year 1768, 



