THE WOOD WARBLER. 



(Phyllo scopus sibilatrix?) 



\ LTHOUGH often taken to comprehend 

 i* * every species of warbler, Professor Newton 

 has recently shown 1 that the genus Sylvia of 

 Latham should be restricted to the group of 

 fruit-eating warblers next to be described, and 

 that the generic term which has priority for the 

 willow wren group is Phylloscopiis of Boie. 



From its larger size, brighter colour, and finer 

 song, the Wood Warbler deserves to be first 



1 Yarrell, "Hist. Brit. Birds," 4th ed. vol. i. pp. 427, 442. 



