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Elliott suggests (I.e.) " its presence on the island 

 was probably caused by the great gale that blew the 

 previous day (June 12) from the south-west." 



YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. Fhylloscopus swper- 

 ciliosus (Gmelin). Length, 4 in. ; bill, 0"1 in. : wing, 

 2-25 in. ; tarsus, 0-6. 



Hah. Siberia, India, Nepaul, ^ China, Japan, and 

 Formosa.^ 



One, Hartley Point, Northumberland, Sept. 1838 : Han- 

 cock, Anv. Mag. Nat. Hist, vol. ii. p. 310; Blyth, 



Zool, 1863, p. 8329. 

 One, Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, Oct. 11, 1867: 



Gould, Ihls, 1869, p. 128. 

 One, Scilly, shot by A. Pechell, recorded as an immature 



Firecrest: Rodd, Zool., 1867, p. 1017, and "Birds of 



Cornwall," p. 249. 

 One, Sumburgh Head Lighthouse, Shetland, Sept. 25, 



1886 : Harvie-Brown, Zool, 1886, p. 487, 

 One, Easington, Yorkshire, Oct. 1889: Hewetson, Nat., 



1890, p. 38. 

 One, Tearaght Rock Lighthouse, co. Kerry, Oct. 14, 1890 : 



Zool, 1891, p. 186; A. G. More, Irish Nat., 1892, p. 3. 



In the collection of R. M. Barrington. 

 One, North Cotes, Lincolnshire, Oct. 7, 1892: Caton Haigh, 



Zool, 1892, p. 413. 

 One, coast of Norfolk, Oct. 1, 1894 : Gurney, Field, Nov. 3, 



1894; Zool, 1894, p. 459. 

 Three near Beverley, Yorkshire, Oct. 8, 1894: Boyes, 



Field, Oct. 27, 1894. One of these is in the Museum of 



Science and Art, Edinburgh. 

 Four, West Buckland, S. Devon, Oct. 1, 1895 : Frohawk. 



1 IMs, 1862, pp. 54-57. 



^ p. Z. S., 1863, p. 297. This bird has occurred accidentally in. 

 Sweden (fide Sundeval), in Heligoland (Gatke and Brehm, Journ. 

 far Orn.), and near Leyden (Crommelin, Nederl. Tjdschr., 186"), p. 244). 



