MELODIOUS WILLOW WARBLER. 357 



INSESSOBES. SYLVIADM. 



DEXTIROSTRES. 



THE MELODIOUS WILLOW WARBLER, 



Sylvia hippolais. 



Sylvia hippolais, Melodious Willow Wren, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 Bee-fin d. poitrine jaune, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 222. 

 Melodious Willow Warbler, HEWIT. Eggs of Brit. Birds, 



pi. 36, f. 5. 



polyglotta, FauveUe lusdniole, ViEiLL.Faun.Fran?.p.212. 



hippolais, Beccafico canapino, SAVI, Ornit. Tusc. vol. i. 



p. 287. 



ON the occurrence of this new addition to the British 

 Fauna, I was favoured by Dr. Plomley of Maidstone, 

 honorary secretary of the Kent Natural History Society, 

 with the following communication, dated July 6, 1848:- 



" Those interested in Natural History, more particularly 

 in Ornithology, will be pleased to hear of the capture, for 



