WOOD-WAKBLER 75 



WOOD-WAEBLEE. 



Phijlloscopus sihilatrix (Bechstein). NaturforscJi., 

 xxvii., p. 47 (1793). 



The Wood- Warbler does not appear to be a very 

 common species in this county. It prefers large and 

 dense old woods far inland, which are not always acces- 

 sible to the wandering naturalist. Its habit of keeping to 

 the higher branches of large trees also prevents a closer 

 observation of it. If the voice of this bird is once heard 

 its presence is easily detected afterwards, it being very 

 different from all the other warblers. Several of these 

 beautiful green warblers were observed in the large fir 

 trees in Broadwater Forest near Tunbridge Wells in the 

 early autumn of 1905. 



The Kev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in his Ornithology of 

 Kent {Zoologist), 1844, states that this species is common. 

 In the list of arrivals of summer birds at Blackheath, 

 by C. Colling wood, the date is given as May 3, 18-54, at 

 Greenwich Park. In the Birds Observed at Bainham 

 Mr. W. H. Power says : " The Wood- Wren is an un- 

 certain visitant, occurred this year (1865) on April 20"; 

 and Mr. AV. Prentis states that it is seen only on passage. 

 According to Mr. E. T. Filmer the Wood-Warbler is 

 not so common as formerly in the Orlestone district. 

 For many years it had a nest on one side or the other 

 of the railway line near Bourne Wood crossing. 



It is also included among the birds in the following 

 localities : Higham and the Mailing valley, Eev. C. H. 

 Fielding ; moderately common in the Stourmouth dis- 

 trict, G. Dowker ; Nonington, W. 0. Hammond; Dover, 

 C. Gordon and Dr. Plomley ; Elmstone, Eev. W. B. 



