YELLOW • WHET^V 
Buffo n enumerates, also, the foHowing 
ocal names — " The'Greeii O JTTpof," says hcj^ 
' and the' Latin Asilus, signify a Horse-Fly, 
ar Gad-Bee : and, hence, were applied to thi& 
aird; probably, on account of it's diminutive 
ize. In the Catalonian language, it is called 
Kiuxerra; in Polish, Krolic Nieczubaty; in 
he Boulonois, Reatin ; in Provence, ' Fifi ; in 
burgundy, Fenerotet, or Fretillet ; in Lorraine,^ 
Fuit, in Sologne, Frelot, Frelotte, Fouillot,- 
Tout- Vive; in the Orleanois, Vetti-Vetto^ 
l oiitolo ; and, in Normandy, Pouillot, or 
?auliot/* 
: We shall transcribe Baffon.'s entire history: 
of this bird—- ' ' 
*^ The three smallest of our Europeart 
)irds," says he,' ** are thq;.G old-Crested Wren^; 
he Common Wren, and the. Yellow Wren.- 
The latter, though not larger than the rest, is 
'atber longer. It has the shape, the size, .and 
he figure, of a little Fig-Eater: for the Yel- 
ow Wren might be ranged in that genus,' 
ivhich is already so numerous, were, it noC 
much belter to giVe each species it's proper- 
lame, which is well known, than to confound 
.it 
