BARRED WARBLER. 165 



conspicuous white moustachial streak. The female has a brown 

 crown and white chin. Length, 5 "2 ins. Wing, 275 ins. 

 Tarsus, "8 in. 



Orphean Warbler. Sylvia orphea Temm. 



The Orphean Warbler is not unlike a large Blackcap, with 

 the cheeks and nape the same colour as the crown — deep 

 brownish black in males, lighter brown in females — with a white 

 chin, and white outer tail feathers. It nests in south-western 

 Europe, so far north as Luxemburg and Lorraine, and in north- 

 west Africa. On three occasions it has been met with in 

 southern counties, but the first record, in 1848, was from York- 

 shire. The latest, a young bird found in 1905, had been killed 

 against a telegraph wire. Length, 6 ins. Wing, 3* i ins. Tarsus, 

 ■9 in. 



Barred Warbler. Sylvia nisoria (Bech.). 



Recent experience has raised the status of the Barred 

 Warbler (Plate 69) from that of a rare visitor on migration to 

 a regular bird of passage, most frequently observed in autumn. 

 Its summer range extends from southern Sweden to the Urals 

 and Bulgaria, and it winters in north-east Africa. On a, very 

 few occasions it has reached the western coast, St. Kilda, and 

 Ireland ; but in the Orkneys, Shetlands, and on the east coast 

 it is noticed annually, usually in September, though it has been 

 met with in August, October and November. In Kent it was 

 observed in April. 



Seebohm describes its shy and skulking habits and song as 

 similar to those of the Whitethroat, but the only examples I 

 have seen — young birds — looked like large Garden-Warblers. 

 They were sneaking amongst the elders and buckthorn on the 



