DARTFORD WARBLER. 



INSESSOKES. 



DEXTIROSTRES. 



365 

 SYLVIAD&. 





THE DARTFORD WARBLER. 



Melizoph ilus Dartfordiensis. 

 Sylvia Dartfordiensis, Dartford WarUer, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 530. 



Motatilla Provincialis, MONTAGU, Oraith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. 



p. 239. 



Curruca FLEM. Brit. An. p. 70. 



MdizopMus SELBT, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 219. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 112. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Sylvia Bee-fin Pittechmt, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 211. 



MELIZOPHILUS. Generic CJutrarters. Beak slender, upper mandible 

 slightly bent from the base, and finely emarginated near the tip ; under 

 mandible straight, shorter than the upper, and shutting within it. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, cleft longitudinally; base of the beak surrounded with hairs. 

 Wings short : the first quill-feather very small ; the second shorter than 

 either of the next four feathers ; the fourth and fifth the longest in the 

 wing. Tail elongated, cuneiform. Tarsi strong, and longer than the 

 middle toe ; claws of moderate length, sharp. 



