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THE YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. 

 Phylloscopus superciliosus (J. F. Gmelin). 



This wanderer from Asia was introduced to the British list by the 

 late John Hancock, who shot an example, now in the Newcastle 

 Museum, on September 26th, 1838, on the sea-banks near Hartley, 

 Northumberland, about four miles north of the Tyne. A second 

 example, recorded by Gould as having been obtained near Chelten- 

 ham on October nth, 1867, by Mr. J. T. White, passed into the 

 collection of the late Sir John Harpur Crewe, while in the same 

 month and year Mr. Pechell shot two in Scilly. On Septem- 

 ber 25th, 1886, the first Scottish specimen was taken at the lantern 

 of Sumburgh Head lighthouse, Shetland, by Mr. James Young- 

 clause, as recorded by Mr. Harvie-Brown, to whom it was sent in the 

 flesh ; on October 14th, 1890, the first Irish example was recorded 

 from the Tearaght light by Mr. R. M. Barrington ; on October 7th, 

 1892, Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh shot the bird now figured near Great 

 Cotes, Lincolnshire ; three appear to have been taken near Beverley, 

 Yorkshire, and one in Norfolk, in October, 1894 ; others are said 

 to have been seen in Holderness, as well as in South Devon. 



On the Continent identified examples have been obtained, at 

 intervals, near Berlin, A-^ienna, the Hague, Leyden, Hjelm in Den- 

 mark, and on the Riviera ; while on Heligoland the Yellow-browed 

 Warbler has been taken or seen more than eighty times between 

 1846 and the end of 1887 — on its autumn migrations, with the 

 exception of two in April and May (Gatke). Its summer home 

 appears to be in the pine-forests of North-eastern Siberia, from the 

 valley of the Yenesei eastward to the Pacific, and from the moun- 



