. A history of British birds . ^55Pjl(?fei- WOOD-WUEN. PASSERES. 427. SYLVIJDyE. ^^Y^^^. Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Beclistein *).THE WOOD-WREN. Sylvia sijlcicolal. Phylloscopus, F. —Bill slender, rather short, upper mandible decurvedfrom the middle and compressed towards the tip, which is very slightly notched ;nostrils basal, lateral, oblong and partly operculate, the membrane clothed withsmall bristle-tipped feathers, the internasal ridge very thin; gape beset withhairs. Wings rather long; the first primary in most species comparatively large,but always much shorter than the second, thi
. A history of British birds . ^55Pjl(?fei- WOOD-WUEN. PASSERES. 427. SYLVIJDyE. ^^Y^^^. Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Beclistein *).THE WOOD-WREN. Sylvia sijlcicolal. Phylloscopus, F. —Bill slender, rather short, upper mandible decurvedfrom the middle and compressed towards the tip, which is very slightly notched ;nostrils basal, lateral, oblong and partly operculate, the membrane clothed withsmall bristle-tipped feathers, the internasal ridge very thin; gape beset withhairs. Wings rather long; the first primary in most species comparatively large,but always much shorter than the second, third or fourth, one of the two lastbeing the longest. Tail of twelve featliers, slightly forked. Legs with the tarsusscaled in front and rather long, as arc also the toes and claws. The Wood-Wren was clearly distinguished by GilbertWhite of Selborne from the two most nearly allied species,as shewn by his letters to Pennant in the year 1768, published * Motacdla sibilatrix, lieclistein, Naturforscher, xxvii. p. 47 (1793).t Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 35 (1798).t Isis, 182(3, p.
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