THE GARDEN WARBLER 



Sylvia hortensis 



The Garden Warbler is even more locally dis- 

 tributed in the British Islands than the Blackcap. 

 It is decidedly an English species, its range in Wales, 

 so far as is yet known, not reaching beyond 

 Pembrokeshire and Breconshire ; in Scotland to 

 the southern and central counties only ; whilst in 

 Ireland it embraces the counties of Cork, Tippe- 

 rary, Fermanagh, and Antrim, and possibly those 

 of Dublin and Wicklow. Its extra British range is 

 very similar to that of the preceding species, but is a 

 little more northerly, reaching lat. 70° in the west 

 and lat. 65° in the east. Its eastern limits are about 

 the same, but it appears only to pass South Italy, 

 Greece and Asia Minor on migration, breeding 

 however in Palestine and North-western Persia. 

 The winter home of the Garden Warblers breeding 

 in the northern hemisphere is in the African portion 

 of the Inter-Tropical Realm. 



The Garden Warbler is a later migrant than the 

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