CIIIFF CHAFF. 



335 



IXUKSSOHES. 



DENTIROSTJiES. 



SYLl r IAD/E. 



THE CHIFF CHAFF. 



Sylvia hippolais. 



Sylvia liippolais, Lesser PettycJiaps, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 508. 



Motacilla M MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



Chiff Chaff, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 267. 

 Trwhilus minor, Least Willow Wren, 268. 



Heyulus liippolais, Lesser Pettychaps, 



Si/lcid , 



CkifChafr 



rufa, 



Bee -fin veloce, 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 72. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 222. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 111. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 225. 



WITH the exception of the Wheatear, the diminutive 

 Chiff Chaff is the first of the warblers that visits us in 

 spring, and by his sprightly actions, as well as his oft- 

 repeated double-note, resembling the two syllables, c Chiff, 

 Chaff," from which he derives his name, is always a wel- 

 come visitor as one of the first harbingers of returning 



