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SYLVIAD^. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYL V1ADJE. 



THE WOOD WARBLER. 



Sylvia sylvicola. 



Syleia sylvicola, Wood 



Warbler, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 512. 



Wren, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



Motadlla trochilus, Yellow BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 264. 



Curruca sibillatrix, Wood FLEM. Brit. An. p. 70. 



Sylvia, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 224. 



J EN YNS, Brit. Vert. p. 110. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 



Bee-fin Siffleur, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 223. 



SYLVIA. Generic CJiaracters. Beak straight, slender, conical, pointed, slightly 

 notched at the tip ; sides compressed ; base furnished with fine hairs. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, oval. Wings, with the first quill very short ; the second shorter 

 than the third, the third the longest in the wing. Legs, with the tarsi longer 

 than the middle toe; toes, three before, one behind ; the outer toe joined at the 

 base to the middle toe. 



THE WOOD WARBLER, though called Motadlla trochilus 

 by Gilbert White of Selborne, was clearly distinguished by 



