INSBSSOSSS. 



1)K\T1ROSTRES. 



WILLOW WARBLER. 



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SYLVIAD^E. 



THE WILLOW WARBLER. 



Sylvia trochilus* 



Sylvia trochilus, Yellow Warbler, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 511. 



Motacilla Wren, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



Willow BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 266. 



Beyulus YdloiD FLEM. Brit. An. p. 72. 



Sylvia SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 226. 



Willow JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 111. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Bee-Jin Pouittot, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 224. 



THE WILLOW WARBLER visits this country every spring, 

 rather earlier in the season than the bird last described, 

 but about the same time as the Blackcap. Around Lon- 

 don, and in the southern counties of England, it is gene- 

 rally seen and heard by the middle of April ; and Mr. 



