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WOOD WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Sylvicola.) 



Sy. virescens subtus Jiavescens, superciliis, lideis, abdomine crisso- 

 que niveis. 



Greenish Warbler, beneath yellowish, with the eyebrows yel- 

 low, and the belly and vent snow white. 



Sylvia sylvicola. Lin. Trans. 4. 35. — Lath. Ind. Orn, Sup, 

 liii. 1. 



Motacilla Sibilatrix. Naturf. 27. 47. 4. 



Kegulus non cristarus major. Will. 164. — Briss. Orn. 3. 482. a. 

 Yellow Willow Wren. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 220. 

 Larger Yellow Wren. White. Selb. 55. 



Wood Wren. Lin. Trans. 2. 245. pi. 24. — Lin. Trans. 4. 35. 

 pi. 2.f. I. egg.— Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 237. 6.— Mont. Orn. 

 Diet. 2.— Mont. Sup. 



Described by Mr. Lamb as a new species of 

 Warbler in the second volume of the Linngean 

 Transactions, though noticed before by Mr. White, 

 in his Natural History of Selborne ; but as it has 

 been again described by Colonel Montagu in the 

 fourth volume of the former work, the description 

 there given will be repeated. " This species 

 weighs about two drams, forty grains : the length 

 five inches and a quarter : the beak is dusky : 

 irides hazel : the upper parts of the head, back, 

 scapulars, and upper coverts of the tail, are of a 

 lively yellow-green : over the eye is a bright 

 brimstone-coloured stroke : the cheeks and throat 

 yellow : the upper part of the breast white, tinged 

 with yellow; the lower part, belly, and under taiL 



