YELLOW WRENc 
nounce the return of spring ; I have heard it 
sing more, than three weeks before the Wild 
Nightingale. It is so feeble, that if we throw 
a clod against the branch on which it sits, it 
will be stunned by the shake, and tumble oft.'* 
Mr. White asserts, that there are three spe- 
cies of the Yellow or Willow Wren ; which 
differ in size and in note. *' The yellowest bird 
IS," he says, *' considerably the largest, and 
s distinguished by having it's quills tipped with 
.vhite. It haunts the tops of trees; and makes 
I sibilous noise, like a Grashopper : at inter- 
nals, it rises; singing, and shivering it's wings.'* 
The fact seems to be, that this bird is much 
ubject to variety, both in size and plumage : 
ut, perhaps, the species are the same. 
In the second volume of the Transactions 
f the Linnsean Society, Mr. Lamb has de- 
cribed what he denominates a new species of 
Varbler, called the Wood Wren ; which^ 
/e conceive, is nothing more than a variety of 
e Yellow Wren. It differs, however," 
» Mr. Lamb observes, in being- larger than 
the 
