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SYLVIADJJ. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIAD^E. 



THE CHIEF CHAFF. 



Sylvia rufa. 



Sylvia hippolais, Lesser Pettycliaps, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 508. 



Motadlla MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



CM/ Chaff, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 267. 

 Trochilus minor, Least Willow Wren, 268. 



JRegulus hippolais, Lesser Pettychaps, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 72. 



Sylvia SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 222. 



Chi/ Chaf, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 111. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



rufa, Bee-Jin veloce, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 225. 



WITH the exception of the Wheatear the diminutive 

 Chiff Chaff is the first of the Warblers that visit us in 

 spring, and by his sprightly actions, as well as his oft- 

 repeated double-note, resembling the two syllables, ' Chiif- 

 Chaff,' from which he derives his name, is always a wel- 

 come visitor as one of the first harbingers of returning 

 fine weather. This hardy little bird has been seen as early 



