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RADDE'S BUSH-WARBLER. 



Luscim'ola schwarzi (Radde). 



For the discovery in England of this wanderer from Eastern 

 Siberia ornithologists are indebted to the persistent researches of 

 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh. On the ist of October 1898, according 

 to his custom at the time of migration, Mr. Haigh was diligently 

 " working " the hedgerows which border the long sea-banks on the 

 Lincolnshire side of the Humber, and, when near North Cotes 

 (where he obtained the first British specimen of the Greenish 

 Willow-Warbler), he was attracted by a strange and particularly 

 powerful note. Thereupon the hedgerow was thoroughly beaten 

 out, and the owner of the loud voice proved to be the Warbler in 

 question — a bird about the size of a Wood-Wren. Easterly winds 

 had been prevalent for some time. The illustration is taken from 

 this specimen, kindly lent for the purpose. 



Radde discovered this Warbler in a kitchen-garden at Kulus- 

 sutajevsk, near the Tarei-nor, Transbaikalia, on the 22nd of 

 September 1856, and named it Sylvia {Phyllopneuste) sc/nvarzi, 

 after his friend the astronomer to the expedition (Reis Siid. 

 Ost-Sibir Bd. ii. pp. 260-263, t^^- ^"- ^g^- ^"3)- He afterwards 

 found it in theChingan Mountains; Dybowsky met with it in 

 Daiiria and the Ussuri country ; Schrenck in the Amur Valley, and 

 Dr. Nikolski in the south-western forests of the Island of Saghalien. 

 From the dates at which specimens were obtained the bird evidently 

 breeds in the above districts, but nothing is known of its nidifica- 

 tion. The most detailed account of this Warbler is by Godlewski, 

 who writes to the following effect : — On its migrations this species 



