The whole length five inches and three-quarters. From
the carpus to the end of the wing, two inches and three-
quarters ; the first quill-feather very short; the second longer
than the sixth, but not so long as the fifth; the third the
longest in the wing.
The female is larger than the male, measuring six inches
and one-quarter; the top of the head chestnut, and the other
parts of the plumage more tinged with brown than that of
the male.
Young birds resemble the adult female, but the hood is
not so decidedly conspicuous. Young males do not acquire
the white belly till after their second summer.
Sylvia hortensis, Greater Petty chaps, P enn. Brit. Zool. vol. j. p. 506.
, , ... M ontagu, Ornith. Diet.
Svlvia Garden Warbler, B ewick, Brit. Birds, vol. l. p. 248.
Motacilla passenna, rTa» ssen•n e „ >> ” ,. 250.
Curruca hortensis, Pettychaps, F l em. Brit. An. p. 70.
Greater Pettychaps, S elby, Bnt. Ormth. vol. l. p. 211.
c ” ” J enyns, Brit. Vert. p. 108.
Curruca „ Garden Warbler, G ould, Birds of Europe, pt. xix.
Sylvia ’’ Bec-fin Fauvette, T emm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 206.
T h e G a r d e n W a r b l e r is another summer visiter,
closely resembling the Blackcap in habits, being lively, active
and restless, seldom remaining long in any one place, secreting
itself in dense foliage, oftener heard than seen, but sometimes
singing from a branch at the top of a tree. As a