WARBLERS 5 5 



Naturalist, i. p. 317. Although generally able to 

 withstand the cold of an ordinary English winter, it 

 is stated on good authority that the severe winters 

 of 1880-81 and 1886-87 had the effect of exter- 

 minating this little bird in parts of Hants and 

 Dorset where it was once common. 



WOOD WREN. Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechstein). PI. 

 8, fig. 6. Length, 5*5 in. ; wing, 3 in. ; tarsus, "75 in. 



A summer migrant to England and Scotland. 

 In Ireland it is extremely local [Zool., 1866, p. 

 300). Mr. H. B. Murray of Clonmel, Co. Tip- 

 perary, identified it in his neighbourhood {Field, 

 May 25, 1867) ; the late Sir Victor Brooke informed 

 me that he shot a Wood Wren in his park in the 

 Co. Fermanagh in June 1870 ; and Mr. Blake Knox 

 of Dalkey had a specimen which was killed with a 

 catapult at Glen Druid, Co. Dublin. 



Mr. H. Chichester Hart obtained a specimen 

 in beech woods at Glenalla, Co. Donegal, in June 



1878, and saw several pairs in the oak woods of 

 Derrybawn, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow {Zool., 1878, 

 p. 348). In June 1879 he again met with this 

 species in the oak plantations of Derrybawn {Zool., 



1879, p. 341 ; 1891, p. 302), and in May 1896 saw 

 and heard several at Carrablagh and Glenalla, in 

 Co. Donegal {Zool, 1896, p. 195). 



The Wood Wren is much greener on the back 

 and whiter on the underparts than either of its con- 

 geners, and has a well-defined superciliary streak 

 of sulphur-yellow, which in the Willow Wren and 



