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or birds of woodland habits, Phylloscopinae, or 

 leaf-searching birds, and Acrocephalinae, or birds 

 belonging to a group many of the members of 

 which have the front of the head narrow and 

 depressed : and under all these three sub-families 

 he will find several species bearing in popular 

 English the name of warbler. At the same time 

 he will find other birds in these sub-families, 

 which are quite familiar to him, but not as 

 ' warblers ' in any technical sense of the word ; 

 thus the Robin will be found in the first sub- 

 family, and the Golden-crested Wren in the 

 second. But, leaving out these two species, and 

 also the Nightingale, which is a bird of some- 

 what peculiar structure and habits, he will find 

 four birds in the first sub-family belonging to 

 the genus Sylvia, which are all loosely called 

 warblers, and will be mentioned in this chapter 

 as summer visitors to Oxford, viz. the White- 

 throat ( or Whitethroat - warbler ), the Lesser 

 Whitethroat, the Blackcap, and the Garden- 

 warbler ; he will also find two in the second, 

 belonging to the genus Phylloscopus, the Chiff- 

 chaff and the Willow-wren (or Willow-warbler), 



