346 

 INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIAD^l. 



SYLVIAD^E. 



THE WOOD WARBLER. 



Sylvia sylvicola. 

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



Wren, 



Motacilla trochilus, Yellow 

 Curruca sibillatrix, Wood 

 Sylvia 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet, 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 264. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 70. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 224. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 110. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Bee-fin Siffleur, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 283. 



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 trochilus 

 by Gilbert White of Selborne, was clearly distinguished by 

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



