DARTFORD WARBLER. 



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INSESSORES. 



DENTIHOSTRES. 



SYLVIAD.T.. 



THE DARTFORD WARBLER. 



SiiU'ia Dai-tfordiemiis, Dartford Warbler, Penn. Brit, Zool. vol. i. p. 530. 



Motacilta Pr(winciaUs, 



Ctirruca, 

 Melizupbilus 



Sylvia 



Montagu, Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 239. 



,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 70. 



,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 219. 



„ ,, Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 112. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 



Bec-Jin Pitteclwu, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 211, 



Melizophilus. Generic Characters. — Beak slender, upper mandible slight- 

 ly bent from the base, and finely emarginated near the tip ; under mandible 

 straight, shorter than the upper, and shutting within it. Nostrils basal, lateral, 

 cleft longitudinally ; base of the beak surrounded with hairs. Wings short : 

 the first quill-feather very small ; the second shorter than either of the next four 

 feathers; the fourth and fifth the longest in the wing. Tail elongated, cunei- 

 form. Tarsi strong, and longer than the middle toe ; claws of moderate length, 

 sharp. 



