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PETTYCHAP WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Hippolais.) 



Sy. virescente-cinerea, subtus jlavescens t abdomine albido, super- 



ciliis albidis. 

 Greenish-ash Warbler, beneath yellowish, with the belly whitish, 



eyebrows white. 



Sylvia Hippolais. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 507- 4. 

 Motacilia Hippolais. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 330. ?. Lin. Faun. 



Suec. 248. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 954. 

 Least Willow Wren. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 223. 

 Lesser Pettychaps. Lath. Gen.Syn. 4. 413. 3. * 

 Pettychaps. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. \4.Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 418. 



G.Latk. Gen. Syn.A. 413. 3. *Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 236. 4. 



Lewin. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 101. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Mont. 



Sup. 



THE Lesser Petty chap Warbler weighs scarcely 

 two drams : its length is about four inches and a 

 half : it is the smallest bird found in England, the 

 Golden-crested Wren excepted : it greatly resem- 

 bles the Yellow Wren ; its principal marks of dis- 

 tinction from which consist in the prevailing 

 colour being scarcely tinged with yellow, and in 

 having the legs dusky : both sexes are the same 

 in plumage. 



Common in many parts of Europe ; with us it 

 is the earliest species of Warbler that arrives, being 

 often heard in the beginning of March, and to- 

 wards the latter end of that month appearing in 

 great numbers ; next to the Wryneck it is the 

 first migrative bird that appears : upon its arrival 



