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British Birds. 



The Chestnut-bellied Weaver-Finch is an inhabitant of India, China, the Malayan 

 Peninsula, and Indo-Mala^an Islands. It is chestnut in colour, with a black head 

 and neck, upper breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts : the upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers have a gloss of golden straw-colour. Length four-and-a-half inches. 



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The Western Tree Warbler. — Hypolais pulyglottn. 



KADDE'S 



BUSH-WARBLER. 



(Herbivocuhi scliwarzi.) 



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At the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club held 

 on the iQth of October, iS9<S, Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh ex- 

 hibited a specimen of this Siberian species, which he had 

 himself shot at North Cotes, in Lincolnshire, on the ist 

 of October. He noticed the powerful note of the bird and had the hedge 

 thoroughly beaten out to find the owner of so loud a voice, with the result that 

 Herbivocula schwarzi was added to the Avifauna of Europe, for it has ne\'er been 

 seen in an}' part of the continent. 



Its breeding-home is in Siberia, and it winters in Southern China and the 



Burmese Provinces. In form Herbi- 

 vocula is intermediate between the 

 Reed-Warblers and the Willow-War- 

 blers. Like the hitter it has a nearly 

 even tail, not graduated as in the Acro- 

 cephrtli, and the bill is black, short and 

 stout. The colour of Radde's Bush- 

 Warbler is very simple, being olive- 

 brown above and tawny-bulT below : 

 it has a verj' distinct buff eyebrow and 

 the under wing-coverts and a.xillaries 

 are also bufi". Length t'lve-and-a-half 

 inches, wing 2-45. 



Radde's Bush-Warbler. 



