512 WOOD WARBLER. Class II. 



veil white eggs, marked with numerous small 

 rust colored spots. It has a low plaintive note; 

 and is perpetually creeping up and down the 

 bodies and boughs of trees. 



[The Scotch wren of the preceding edition, 

 is discovered by Dr. Tengmelin to be no other 

 than a young bird of this species.* Ed.] •-" 



g. Wood. Sylvia sj'lvicola. S. virescens, Regulus non cristatus major. 



subtus flavcscens, supercl- Brisson av. iii. 482. 



His luteis, abdomine crisso- Larger not crested Wren. TfiL 



que niveis. Lath. Sup. ii. orri. 228. 



liii. Kay's Letters, 108. > ' •' 



Sylvia Asilus zc?. (Sj/jz. iv 514, Large Yellow Wren. Tfliite's 



E. id. Ind. orn. 550. S. Selhorne. 55 



Wood Wren. Ziw. Tr. ii. 245. _ • 



t. 24. ih. IV 35. 



[THIS species, which has been confounded 

 with the yellow warbler, was first figured and 

 described by Mr. Lamb, in the Linnean Trans- 

 actions, and its manners more fully elucidated 

 by Mr. Mo7itagu, in a subsequent volume of the 

 same work. ... .:^ ' 



Descrip- It exceeds the yellow warbler in size, mea- 

 suring in length five inches and a quarter ; its 

 plumage is also more vivid, the stroke over the 

 e,ye of a lighter yellow, and a more character- 



TION. 



* Arct. Zool. ii. 1Q.Q. 



