512 WOOD WARBLER. Class II. 



ven 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.] 



9. Wood. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Sylvia sylvicola. S. virescens, 

 subtus flavescens, superci- 

 liis luteis, abdomine crisso- 

 que niveis. Lath. Sup. ii. 

 liii. 



Sylvia Asilus id. Syn. iv. 514. 

 E. id. Ind. orn. 550. 5. 



Wood Wren. Lin. Tr. ii. 245. 

 t. 24. ib. iv. 35. 



Regulus non cristatus major. 



Brisson av. iii. 482. 

 Larger not crested Wren. Wih 



orn. 228. 

 Ray's Letters, 108. 

 Large Yellow Wren= Wldte's 



Selhorne. 55. 



[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. Montagu, in a subsequent volume of the 

 same work. 



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 

 eye of a lighter yellow, and a more character- 



* Arct. Zool. ii. 109. 



