CHIFF CHAFF. 335 
INSESSORES. SYLVIAD A. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
THE CHIFF CHAFF. 
Sylvia hippolais. 
Sylvia  hippolais, Lesser Pettychaps, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 508. 
Motacilla ,, o Monraau, Ornith. Dict. 
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Chiff Chaff; Berwick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 267. 
Trochilus minor, Least Willow Wren, op 5p * - 268. 
Regulus hippolais, Lesser Pettychaps, Fux. Brit. An.-p. 72. 
Sylvia 35 35 7p Sesy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 222. 
- Ss Chit? Chaff; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 111. 
5 ee 3 35 Gou tp, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 
Fae Bee-fin veloce, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 225. 
Wirn 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, ‘ Chiff, 
Chaff, from which he derives his name, is always a wel- 
come visitor as one of the first harbingers of returning 
