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WOOD WARfeLEll. 

 (Sylvia Sylvicola.) 



Sir. virescens subtusjlavescens, superciliis, luteis, abdomine crisso* 

 que niveis. 



Greenish Warbler, beneath yellowish, with the eyebrows yel- 

 low, and the belly and vent snow white. 



Sylvia sylvicola. Lin. Trans. 4. 35. Lath. 2nd. Orn. Sup. 

 liii. 1. 



Motacilla Sibilatrix. Naturf. 27. 47. 4. 



Regulus non cristatus major. Will. 164. Briss. Orn. 3. 482. A. 



Yellow Willow Wren. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 220. 



Larger Yellow Wren. White. Selb. 55. 



Wood Wren. Lin. Trans. 2. 245. pi. 24. Lin. Trans. 4. 35. 

 pi. 2.f.l. egg. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 23?. 6. Mont.' Orn. 

 Diet. 2. Mont. Sup. 



DESCRIBED by Mr. Lamb as a new species of 

 Warbler in the second volume of the Linngean 

 Transactions, though noticed before by Mr. White, 

 in his Natural History of Selborne ; but as it has 

 been again described by Colonel Montagu in the 

 fourth volume of the former work, the description 

 there given will be repeated. " This species 

 weighs about two drams, forty grains : the length 

 five inches and a quarter : the beak is dusky : 

 irides hazel : the upper parts of the head, back, 

 scapulars, and upper coverts of the tail, are of a 

 lively yellow-green : over the eye is a bright 

 brimstone-coloured stroke : the cheeks and throat 

 yellow : the upper part of the breast white, tinged 

 with yellow; the lower part, belly, and under tail- 



