SYLVIIN^,. 65 



THE GREENISH WHXOW-WARBLER. 

 Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth. 



On September 5th 1896 IMr. G. H. Caton Haigh shot a female 

 of this Warbler at North Cotes, Lincolnshire, and this specimen, 

 having been exhibited at the Meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club on October 21st, forms the subject of the present illustration. 

 Mr. Haigh has remarked that " the weather prevailing at the time 

 of its appearance was such as usually results in a great immi- 

 gration of small birds ; the wind backing to the east on the night 

 of September 3rd, and blowing from that quarter on the 4th and 

 5th, with heavy rain commencing to fall on the afternoon of the 

 4th, and continuing without intermission for twenty-four hours." 

 Ornithologists who deliberately go out to search for birds under such 

 circumstances richly deserve the success which may reward one 

 excursion out of a hundred. 



On Heligoland the Greenish Willow-Warbler was obtained on 

 September 25th 1878, May 30th 1879, ^"d June 3rd 1880. No 

 other occurrences are known as yet in the Western half of Europe, 

 but in Russia the species is found no farther off than the Olonetz 

 department — a trifle to the north-east of St. Petersburg, Jaroslav 

 and Kazan. Its true summer home is, however, more to the east- 

 ward, on the wooded slopes of the Ural Mountains and the banks 

 of the river of the same name, in Transcaspia, Turkestan, the 

 Tian Shan Mountains (probably the Altai), and the Himalayas; 

 while in winter the bird visits the greater part of the peninsula of 

 India, and Ceylon. 



A newly-made nest, found by Mr. W. E. Brooks in Kashmir, at 



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