74 WARBLER. 



among the shrubs ; said to be migratory. M. Temminck, who 

 thinks this and the last to be the same, says, it is found on the banks 

 of the Volga. 



63— WOOD WREN. 



• Sylvia sylvicola, Ind. Orn. Sup. liii. 

 Motacilla Sibilatrix, Das Laubvolchen, Naturf. xxvii. s. 47. 4. Tern. Man. 103. Id. 



Ed.n. p. 225. 

 Muscicapa sylvicola, Yellow-throated Flycatcher, Am. Orn.\. pi. 7. f. 3. 

 Regulus non cristatus major, JBra.iii. 4S2. A. Id. Svo. i. 442. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 550. S. 



Will. 164. Ray's Letters, p. 108. Gen. Syn. iv. 514. C. 

 Green Wren, Alb. ii. pi. 86 ? Br. Zool. Ed. 1812. i. 512. Shaw's Zool. x. 748. pi. 57. 



Orn. Diet. 

 Larger yellow Wren, White's Selb. p. 55. Bewick's Birds, i. p. 220. 

 Larger, not crested, Wren, Will. Engl. 228. 

 Wood Wren, Lin. Trans, ii. 245. pi. 24. Id. iv. 35. pi. 2. f. 1— the egg. Gen. Syn. 



Sup. ii. 237. 6. 



THIS bird is not greatly different in colour from the Willow 

 Wren, but it is larger, of a more elegant make, and the colours 

 much brighter; the length is five inches and a half, breadth nine, 

 and the weight two drachms, 42 grains. Bill horn-colour, with a 

 few hairs at the base ; irides hazel ; plumage on the upper parts of 

 the body yellow green ; the cheeks, throat, and under parts of the 

 shoulders yellow; over the eyes a streak of yellow ; the breast pale 

 yellow ; belly and vent a most beautiful silvery white ; wing feathers 

 brownish, the margins outwardly green, and inwardly whitish ; tail 

 rather forked, dusky brown, edged with green ; legs horn-colour. 

 The female like the male, a trifle larger, and weighs three drachms. 

 This is a migratory species ; the male, as usual in the Warbler Genus, 

 coming first ; and there is a greater interval between the arrival of 

 the two sexes, than in any other, being sometimes at a week or ten 

 days distance ; we first see it about the end of April, and lose sight 

 of it in September ; chiefly met with in coppice woods of oak or 

 beech, on the most lofty of which it may be found, uttering a kind 



