72 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



SYLVIA UNDATA 



151. Sylvia undata dartfordiensis Lath.*— THE DARTFORD 

 WARBLER. 



Sylvia dartfordiensis Latham, Ind. Orn., 11, p. 517 (1790 — Bexley 



Heath, near Dartford). 



Melizophilus provincialis, Selhy, Brit. Orn., i, p. 219 (1833); Seebohm, 



Hist. Brit. B., i, p. 414. 



MeHzophilus undatus (Boddaert), Yarrell, i, p. 398 ; Sylvia tmdata 



(Boddaert), Saunders, p. 00. 



Distribution. — England. — Resident. Very locaL Main nesting- 

 haunts in Hants., extending into Isle of Wight and Dorset' and 

 possibly Wilts., and Surrey, extending into Berks, and Sussex ; 

 also breeds small numbers in Cornwall, Essex, east Suffolk and 

 probably Oxon. ; a pair or two recorded as breeding tolerably 

 regularly at one locality in Salop. Some evidence that a pair 

 bred Cannock Chase (Staffs.) about 1870, and formerly bred in 

 Kent, Middlesex, and Devon, but now extinct in these counties. 

 Recorded breeding in Somerset and Herts, requires confirmation. 

 Rare vagrant to other counties in southern half of England. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Channel Islands and north-west France. 

 Replaced by closely-allied races in south-west Europe and north- 

 west Africa. 



AGROBATES GALACTOTESf 



152. Agrobates galactotes galactotes (Temm.)— THE RUFOUS 



WARBLER. 



Sylvia galactotes Temminck, Man. d"Om., ed. 11, i, p. 182 (1820 — 



S. Spain). 



Aedon galactodes (Temminck), Yarrell, i, p. 355 ; Saunders, p. 73. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Four. One near Brighton (Sussex) 

 Sept. 16, 1854. One Start (Devon) Sept. 25. 1859. One 

 Slapton (Devon) Oct. 12, 1876. One Old Head of Kinsale (Cork) 

 Sept., 1876. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — South Spain and Portugal, north Africa, 

 south Syria. Stray birds have been observed in Italy. Appears 

 in winter in oases of Great Desert. 



* The Dartford Warbler had been in the undisturbed possession of the 

 name provincialis for over 60 years, when Gray, and later Newton and Dresser, 

 correctly adopted undata ; and as the British race is darker and smaller it must 

 be called iS". v. dartfordiensis. The generic separation of Melizophihis is not 

 tenable. — E.H. 



t The generic name " ^eion " has erroneously been accepted for the 

 Rufous Warblers. This name was first introduced by Forster, 1817, for the 

 Nightingales; Boie's use of the same name for the Rufous Warblers, in 

 1826, is therefore null and void. — E.H. 



