W ACR B Lb E Re 
Sylvia mofchita, Ind. Orn. i. p. 509. 8:—Cert. Uc. Sard. p. 215. 
THIS is lead colour, with a rufous crown. 
Inhabits Sardinia : the eggs of the Cuckow faid to be frequently 
Jaid in the neft of this bird. ‘here is little doubt but M. Certi has 
unneceffarily made two fpecies of this and the laft, as they appear to’ 
be no other than the male and female Blackcap.. 
Regulus non criftatus major, Bri; Orn. 3. 482. A.—Ind, Ora. ii. p. 550, 3.— 
Will. Orn. p. 164.—Ray’s Letters, p. 108. 
Motacilla Sibilatrix, Das Laubvolchen, Naturf. 27. p. 47: 4. 
Larger, not crefted Wren, Vill. Orn. (Engl, ed.) p. 228.—Gen. Syn. iv. p- 
514. €. 
Larger Yellow Wren, White Selb. p. 55. 
Sylvia Sylvicola, Wood Wren, Liz. Tran/. iv. p: 35.—Id. vol. ii. p. 245. pl. 24: 
HAVE ever had my doubts of this bird beinga variety of any 
fpecies before defcribed ; but it is to my friends that I am indebted 
for fixing. it as a-diftinct fpecies. It is indeed not greatly differing 
in colour from the Willow Wren; but is of a more elegant make, and 
the colours infinitely brighter. The length is five inches and aa. 
half; the weight two drams forty-two grains: the bill is horn co- 
lour: irides hazel: noftrils furnifhed with: briftles; upper parts of 
the body in general yellow green: threat, cheeks, and under -part of 
the fhoulders yellow; breaft paler yellow: belly and vent a moft 
beautiful filvery white: over the eye a ftreak of yellow: feathers of 
thé wings moftly brownifh, with green margins outwardly, and in- 
wardly whitifh: tail rather forked, dufky brown, edged with green: 
legs horn colour.. 
The female caught on‘the neft weighed three drams: 
This is a migratory fpecies, the males as ufual coming firft, and’ 
as Colonel Montagu obferves, there is a greater diftance between the 
4 arrival: 
297 
RUFOUS- 
CROWNED 
W. 
DEscRIPTIONe 
6.- 
WOOD WREN. 
DeEscerPriox. 
