WARBLERS 355 



One, Blakency, Norfolk, Sept. 9, 1896 : Gmney,Zool., 1897, 



p. 133. 

 One, Christchurch, Hants. In collection of Mr. E. Hart. 

 One, Farlington Marsh, Havant, Hants, Sept. 1897: Scott, 



ZooL, 1897, p. 471. 



Obs. Mr. Gurney has pointed out (Trans. Norf. 

 Nat. Soc, 1871-72, p. 62) that the figure of the 

 Sedge Warbler given in Hunt's " British Orni- 

 thology " (Norwich, 1815) was undoubtedly taken 

 from a specimen of A. aquaticus, and most probably, 

 therefore, from one killed in Norfolk. 



RUFOUS WARBLER. Aiidon galactodes (Temminck). 

 Length, 7 in. ; bill, 075 in. ; wing, 3-5 in. ; tarsus, 

 1 in. 



Hab. North Africa and Southern Europe in summer. 



One, Plumpton Bosthill, near Brighton, Sept. 16, 1854: 



Borrer, ZooL, 1854, p. 4511. A coloured figure is given 



in Borrer's " Birds of Sussex." 

 One, Start Point, Devonshire, Sept. 1859 : Llevfellyn, Ann. 



Mag. Nat Hist. (1859), iv. p. 399; Ibis, 1860, p. 103. 

 One, Old Head of Kinsale, Sept. 1876 : Ussher, Irish Nat, 



1899, p. 52. In Museum of Queen's College, Cork, 

 One near Slapton, South Devon, Oct. 12, 1876 : Nicholls, 



Zool, 1876, p. 5179, and Field, Oct. 28, 1876. 



Obs. This bird has been called by some writers 

 the "Rufous Sedge Warbler," but erroneously so, 

 since it is never found in the neighbourhood of 

 sedge, but on the driest ground amidst scrub and 

 cactus. It is possible that this may be the " Red- 

 tailed Warbler [Sylvia erythaca)," six specimens of 

 which are stated to have been taken at Plymouth, 

 and to have occuiTed there "for the first time in 



