. A history of British birds . 432 PASSERES. Phylloscopus trochilus (Linnseiis*). THE WILLOW-WEEN. Sylvia trochllus. The Willow-Wren visits this country every spring,earlier in the season than the hircl last described, but aboutthe same time as the Blackcap. Around London, and inthe southern counties, it appears towards the end of Marchor at the beginning of April, and is generally seen and heardthroughout England by the middle of the month last men-tioned. Selby has noticed its arrival in Northumberland assoon as the larch-trees are green. Some few localities ex-cepted,
. A history of British birds . 432 PASSERES. Phylloscopus trochilus (Linnseiis*). THE WILLOW-WEEN. Sylvia trochllus. The Willow-Wren visits this country every spring,earlier in the season than the hircl last described, but aboutthe same time as the Blackcap. Around London, and inthe southern counties, it appears towards the end of Marchor at the beginning of April, and is generally seen and heardthroughout England by the middle of the month last men-tioned. Selby has noticed its arrival in Northumberland assoon as the larch-trees are green. Some few localities ex-cepted, the Willow-Wren is found in greater numbers and,as will presently be shewn in further detail, is more generallydispersed throughout the British Islands than either theWood-Wren last described or the Chiffchaif of which anaccount is to follow. Its presence is at once proclaimed by * Motacilla trochilns, Linnteus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 338 (1766). WILLOW-WREN. 433 its cheerful carol, and indeed the bird is not whose strainscan be more aptly associated in the me
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