324 SYLVIADA. 
INSESSORES. SYLVIADA. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
THE WOOD WARBLER. 
Sylvia sylvicola. 
Sylvia sylvicola, Wood Warbler, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 512. 
ai “ S Wren, Monraceu, Ornith. Dict. 
Motacilla trochilus, Yellow  .,, Berwick, Brit. Birds, vol. 1. p. 264. 
Curruca sibillatrix, Wood  ,, Fem. Brit. An. p. 70. 
Sylvia, FD 5 66 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 224. 
as 5 Bs 35 JENyNsS, Brit. Vert. p. 110. 
es as a a Gou tp, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 
+ 5 Bec-fin Siffieur, Tem. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 223. 
Syiv1a.— Generic Characters.—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. 
Tue Woop Warster, though called Motacilla trochilus 
by Gilbert White of Selborne, was clearly distinguished by 
