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the ground, amongst the herbage; is externally constructed 
of dry grass, dead leaves and moss, but differs from them in 
being invariably lined with fine grass, and hair, instead of 
feathers. ‘The eggs are six innumber, white, with numerous 
purplish-red spots over the whole surface, but confluent, and 
forming a zone towards the larger end.—The food of the Food. 
wood-wren consists of insects and their larvee, principally of 
those kinds that feed upon the foliage of trees. It is of 
general diffusion through the kingdom, and to be met with 
in all situations congenial to its habits. 
Puate 47. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Top of the head, and all the upper parts sulphur-yellow, the General 
lower (or root), half of the feathers tinged with ash- Gene. 
grey. Forehead, and eye-streak (which is large and well 
defined), sulphur inclining to gamboge yellow. Cheeks, 
throat, front of neck, marginal ridges of the wings, and 
thighs pale sulphur-yellow.—The rest of the lower parts, 
and the under tail-coverts, pure white. ‘Tail slightly 
forked, hair-brown, margined with sulphur-yellow, ex- 
cept the outer feather, which is of a uniform hair-brown 
colour. Legs pale yellowish-brown. Biull, having the 
under mandible pale yellowish-brown, the upper rather 
darker. Wings reaching as far as the extremity of the 
upper tail-coverts, or two-thirds of the length of the 
tail.—Both sexes are similar in plumage. 
«Yellow Wren.—Sylvia trochilus, Lath. 
PLATE 4i. Fig. 3. 
Sylvia trochilus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v 2. p. 550. sp. 15. 5. 
Motacilla trochilus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 338. 49.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 995. sp. 49. 
Asilus, Briss. Orn. v. 3. p. 479. 45.—Raii, Syn. p. 80. A 10.—Wiill. p. 164, 
Motacilla acredula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 338. 49. B. 
Sylvia fitis, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 643. 
Le Pouillot ou le Chantre, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 344.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 651. f. 1. 
Le Figuier brun et jaune, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 295. 
Bec-fin Pouillot,Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 224. 
